STATUE OF HYPOCRISY

Dear editor,

Thank you for publishing Rich Rytter's outstanding letter, "Decision time"
(July 11). He is absolutely right on the mark.

Our nation's policy of drug prohibition has been just as coun-terproductive
as alcohol prohibi-tion. Illegal drug buyers purchase drugs of unknown
quality, un-known potency and unknown purity, not unlike the bathtub gin
our grandfathers bought that re-sulted in needless deaths and needless
blindings.

Thanks to the counterproductive drug war, the nation that has the huge
statue proclaiming liberty to all, has more prisoners than any other
country in history. Perhaps, the statue should be re-named the Statue of
Hypocrisy.

(s)Kirk Muse

Vancouver, Wash.

Kirkem2@home.com