yep, that is a quote from my home state Republican senator. Here, with small revisions that will be obvious, is an otherwise verbatum quote of his most recent letter to your humble narrator:
Dear Mr. SuckMeBush:
Thank you for your correspondence supporting the legalization of marijuana for medical pruposes. As your Senator, it is important for me to hear from all Iowans on issues that are important to you.
I must, however, disagree with your view that marijuana should be legalized for medical purposes. Marijuana is illegal because it is dangerous. When you smoke marijuana, or use any other drug, it changes yur brain. It changes the way you think, your ability to learn, and how well you can remember. Making Marijuana a legal drug will not change any of this. the laws granting the federal government the authority over the movement and sale of these dangerous substances is well established and has been thoroughly reviewed by the courts.
Over 15,000 scientific, peer-reviewed studies into the medicinal value of marijuana have been published. Not one demonstrates that marijuana has any medicinal value for any condition. Indeed, there is medical evidence to suggest that marijuana may actually aggravate some of the conditions it is supposed to treat, such as glaucoma or wasting.
 Americans today have the world's safest, most effective system of medical practice, built on a process of scientific research, testing and oversight that is unequaled. Every drug prescribed as medicine in this country must be tested according to scientifically rigorous protocols to ensure that it is safe and effective before it can be sold. Legalizing marijuana through the political process bypasses the safeguards established by the FDA to protect the public from dangerous or ineffective drugs.
It is also important to point out that for every instance claimed as a use for marijuana, there is a far better, legitimate, scientifically approved medication. this includes Marinol, which is a legally available, FDA-approved form of a marijuana extract that is currently being used as a treatment for nausea and AIDS wasting syndrome. Many other medicines have been developed and have received FDA approval that do not have the hallucinogenic side effects that come with smoking marijuana. these are medicines that meet scientific standards and do not rely on sanecdotes and testimony for validation.
Certainly, I want to provide relief for people who are sick and dying. Should research someday prove that smoking marijuana does have medicinal value, I would support its use for medical purposes. But, even then,it should occur only under proper medical supervision and should conform to the prescription procedures under which other medicines are administered.
 Thank you again for contacting me. Please keep in touch.
Oh, yes, you slippery eel. I most certainly Will keep in touch. you just try to lose the grip of the suckmebush terrier. I am not a big dog, but my bite is eternal as I can make it when I am worked up.
I am going to carefully de construct his lawyerly crafted letter sentence by sentence and I am going to feed it back to him after I have challenged every bullshitting part of it.
I got one from the govenor's office, too. It was lots shorter. they basically told me to go fuck myself that they were Never going to change their minds because they were right the first time and I was just an asshole wanting pot. right they are. an asshole with a large determined brain over it and I am not shutting up for them either.
Keepping your children out of jail is hard work! I have to pick up this heavy keyboard and make sense and tell the politicians I want them to quit bullshitting us.
Are you so sure you are safe that you leave it to me to protect your children with my writing? Or will you help me now, when I need you to?
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