MARIJUANA'S MEDICINAL MIRACLES

Strange as it may seem, here is one rightwing Republican who agrees with
Wayne Turner and Steve Michael in their column about marijuana ["Marijuana
for Medicine, Not Abuse," oped, 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