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MAINE MEDICAL POT LAW FAILS TO PROTECT PATIENTS
To the Editor:
When you cast your vote to increase access to medical marijuana, you were part
of 59 percent of us who did so. Maybe you did so because you know someone
who uses marijuana to alleviate symptoms of debilitating conditions or maybe
because you have compassion and people should have the autonomy to choose their
own treatments.
Maybe you voted for this because you realize marijuana is proportionately
benign; especially in comparison to Oxycontin or other opiates that are actually
physically addictive and have proven to be a blight on our society. Maybe
you realized prohibition increases the black market and does very little to
decrease use. Or maybe you really don't care what others choose to do in
the privacy of their own lives. Regardless of your reasons, your vote was
part of the 59 percent.
Did you vote for eight state-controlled dispensaries and $15,000 a year
licensing fee for the dispensaries? Did you vote for suspension of Fourth
Amendment rights for patients and caregivers? Both patients and caregivers will
be subject to warrantless search. Did you vote for patients to have to
register with the state to have access to medical marijuana? Did you think when
you cast your vote you would be increasing government intrusion and control?
Patients will have to register with the state and by doing so subject themselves
to harassment. Did you vote to increase the restrictions to access?
Where is confidentiality? Is this what you voted for?
A common trait is this disregard for the people's will and it needs to have
consequences. Fifty-nine percent voted for this citizens initiative.
This link will take you to the members of the committee: www.maine.gov/legis/house/jt_com/hum.htm
Any of them your rep? Vote them out.
Johanna Galt
Eliot, Maine
Pubdate: Sat, 27 Mar 2010
Source: Portsmouth Herald (NH)
Copyright: 2010 Seacoast Newspapers
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