Message-Id: <3.0.3.32.19971119101641.007c6960@hella.stm.it>

Date: Wed, 19 Nov 1997 10:16:41 +0100

From: VOTEYES57@aol.com

Subject: former Reagan official supports rx marijuana

Former Reagan official comes out for Rx Marijuana

"We finally turned to marijuana. With it, she kept her food down, was comfortable and even gained weight."

After a long weekend gathering signatures in the cold, supporters of Initiative 57 in the District of Columbia woke up to a letter to the editor in support of our op-ed piece from a high ranking advisor to former President Ronald Reagan.

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for more info contact Steve Michael at 202-547-9404

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Marijuana's Medicinal Miracles

Monday, November 17, 1997; Page A22

The Washington Post

Strange as it may seem, here is one right-wing Republican who agrees with Wayne Turner and Steve Michael in their column about marijuana ["Marijuana for Medicine, Not Abuse," op-ed, Nov. 5].

When our grown daughter was undergoing chemotherapy for lymph cancer, she was sick and vomiting constantly as a result of her treatments. No legal drugs, including Marinol, helped her.

We finally turned to marijuana. With it, she kept her food down, was comfortable and even gained weight. Those who say Marinol and other drugs are satisfactory substitutes for marijuana may be right in some cases but certainly not in all cases.

If doctors can prescribe morphine and other addictive medicines, it makes no sense to deny marijuana to sick and dying patients when it can be provided on a carefully controlled, prescription basis.

LYN NOFZIGER

Falls Church

Initiative 57 is in the home stretch of it's signature gathering effort. Volunteers have until December 8 to turn in 17,010 valid signatures (5% of the total registration)

To volunteer call 202-547-9404

Medical Marijuana Saves Lives!

Yes on 57!