DRUG CZAR IS 'NATIONAL JOKE'

Re: Canada must not follow the U.S. on drug policy, Feb. 22.

Writer Ethan Nadelmann is too kind about U.S. drug czar John Walters.
Mr. Walters's duplicity and his irrational, unscientific obsession
with marijuana have made him a national joke in the United States.
When the most comprehensive, government-funded research found that
the ads produced by his office increased teen marijuana use rather
than reducing it, Mr. Walters's response was to suppress the study
for 18 months and then -- when it was forced into the public domain
by a congressional inquiry -- to dismiss it out of hand.

Bruce Mirken,

Washington, D.C.,

Marijuana Policy Project