ILLICIT MUSHROOMS

Re " 'West Wing' Creator Arrested in Drug Case," April 17: Has this country
gone completely bonkers? Now we are arresting people for being in
possession of tainted toadstools. When will Americans wake up and recognize
that it is not government's role to protect free-thinking adults from
harming themselves? Not with liquor, not with cigarettes, not with airplane
glue, not with marijuana and certainly not with fantasy-inducing fungi. And
it is also not government's prerogative to spend our tax dollars trying to
do so. America's antiquated and ineffective drug laws need to be revisited,
reviewed and repealed right now.

Richard Arroyo

Beverly Hills