MAKE IT LEGAL OR GIVE UP

Regarding "respect patient confidentiality" (Aug. 16), I am sick and tired
of this insane drug war contradiction between government's war on some drugs
but not others, such as "medical marijuana." Make it all legal, pot to
heroin, or let's stop messing around and become a drug war police state,
once and for all.

We should either stand up to the government as a free people and declare
enough is enough, or surrender the Bill of Rights and admit to ourselves, as
a nation, that we just could not handle individual liberty--it was a nice
idea, sounded good on paper, but in the end the people were just too stupid
and/or apathetic to keep it and make it work.

After all, when it comes to personal choice on drug consumption, isn't that
exactly what the government is suggesting?

Floyd Ferris Landrath
Director, American Antiprohibition League
Southeast Portland, OR