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The Des Moines Register
Post Office Box 957, Des Moines, Iowa 50304
Phone: 515-284-8000 / Fax: 515-286-2504
E-mail: letters@dmreg.com
Page 12A, The Des Moines Register, Thursday, October 24, 1996
Marijuana is hardly a cure
Regarding
the rally on the state Capitol steps to legalize marijuana for "medicinal"
purposes ("He Still Yearns To Reform Laws on Marijuana," Oct. 6):
Those pushing
for drug legalization will try anything to get their nose under the tent. But for one of
our state senators -- Elaine Szymoniak -- to legitimize such an obvious attempt to
legalize drugs is simply outrageous.
In the Register
article, Szymoniak is quoted as saying marijuana "does help some people."
She added that the only reason she is not introducing a bill to legalize dope for
medical use is that there is virtually no support among her colleagues for such
legislation.
No wonder.
The American Medical Association, the American Glaucoma Society, the American
Academy of Ophthalmology, the International Federation of Multiple Sclerosis Societies and
the American Cancer Society have all rejected marijuana for medical use. Other,
safer painkilling medicines exist that do not contain a dependence-causing euphoria.
Symoniak
apparently doesn't believe such testimony is convincing.
-- Curt Smith
4131 College Ave., Des Moines