MAKING HASH OF THE GOVERNOR

To the Editor:

Thanks to Cara DeGette for the article on the governor's pot plant (Public
Eye, Aug. 16). You discovered [the plant], from what I have read. I am sure
you recognized it from your high-school health book.

You are quite right; if it had been found on anybody else's property, it
would have been no laughing matter. The only point I would make to you,
which I think you made obliquely, is that when the mere possession of
anything is made illegal, it makes it just too easy to incriminate an
innocent person.

Yes, the governor is guilty of many things, but I don't think cultivating
pot is one of them. He should use this incident as a demonstration of why
drug prohibition is a danger to us all.

Keep up the good fight!

- -- John K. Berntson
Colorado Springs