Letter to the Editor

Letters to the editor

Wednesday, December 1, 2004

LIFE WITHOUT MARY JANE

Dear editor:

Here we're the greatest moral nation

We've all heard time and time again

Built on our laws as our foundation

Where each of us is free to complain

Where people vote their convictions

Here fair elections our law demands

A judge rules over every jurisdiction

In courts to enforce laws in our land

We elect a leader to make decisions

Keep the citizens healthy and secure

To make all those needed provisions

All our best interests will be assured

As I sit here in pain and contemplate

About one drug for pain never tested

Our government I would recriminate

For citizens in pain and sick arrested

We have one God given medication

Which grows around this great earth

Our government keeps it in isolation

While knowing its alternative worth

Stating because it's as an illegal drug

Thousands of people are now denied

My pain is now swept beneath the rug

We're expected to take it in our stride

Still the pharmaceutical corporations

Have influenced leaders by the scores

Becoming our priority considerations

As lobbyists fill white house corridors

Please tell me where their morals are

While thousands will suffer everyday

I believe to deny relief is just bizarre

Today the people have been betrayed

With their manufactured medications

Which has never taken away the pain

Fifteen years I've lived in desperation

Wishing I had a friend like Mary Jane

Thelma Shutters

Schell City