My heart goes out to medical cannabis crusader Grant Krieger, of Calgary, in his noble quest to supply the ill with an ancient and honourable medicine ("Drug trafficking charges appeal up in smoke, The Journal, Nov. 6).

The prohibitionists in our midst ought to be ashamed of themselves that they would stand idly by and let the ill suffer in the name of the therapeutic state. Grant Krieger ought not to have to be a medicinal serf at the mercy of the doctors who are proving to be just as ugly as the priests were when they were in charge of medicine. Holy water was the only medicine approved by the church when witches were being burned for curing people with their knowledge of healing plants. Grant Krieger deserves the Order of Canada for his heroic efforts against all odds to take on the establishment.

Chris Buors, Winnipeg

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