WASHINGTON DRUG WARRIORS FIGHTING RIDICULOUS BATTLE

Editor, the Tribune:

Kudos to your publisher for his stand on medical and recreational
marijuana. The time is long overdue for debate on all issues pertaining to
marijuana. While the rest of this planet is softening its ridiculous
posture on marijuana, America moves further into the drug war. The war on
some drugs will not end until Congress feels the will of the voter at the
polls. When a Senate or House member loses his post to anti-drug war
sentiment, the situation will change - and fast. The effectiveness of the
drug war cannot be measured in political rhetoric as our government would
have us believe, but the cost of drug war is felt every day by drug war
prisoners, asset forfeiture and police corruption. Do not return drug
warriors to Washington, and the war will end.

Peter C. Christopher

Locust, N.J.