Thank you for having the courage and compassion to endorse medicinal
marijuana. You have enlightened your readers to the cruel and
inhumane criminal prohibition of marijuana to ill people. This needs
to be understood and supported, not masked in anti-drug hysteria that
forces sick people to become criminals.

I applaud USA TODAY for taking this important stand and supporting an
issue as important and necessary as this one.

Marnie Regen Drug Reform Coordination Network San Jose,
Calif.