Letters to the editor
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