DRUG POLICY IS MADNESS

To the editor:

I must add my ditto to Robert Sharpe's letter (May 3, "End drug policy
madness") regarding Jonathan White's thoughtful article (April 23, "Hidden
cost of drug war").

We Americans are way overdue to approach our drug problem with
intelligence. We've got to stop pouring billions of dollars down the
proverbial "rat hole." To date, our approach to our drug problems has been
a dismal failure and even has escalated the problem. The only results we
have to show for our efforts are the many who have profiteered from the
misery of the drug addicts.

Let's ask our Congressional representatives to insist that our federal
government take a more sensible approach to our drug problems.

Gene Bernard, Topsham