'TRAFFIC' SIGNALS

Re: "An old-fashioned evening with Oscar" (editorial, March 28).

Whether or not "Traffic" accurately portrays U.S. drug policy continues to
be a point of contention. A few high-level government bureaucrats say nay,
but box-office receipts and high praise from the masses seem to suggest
otherwise.

The history of the War on Drugs speaks volumes to the futility of this
social experiment gone awry.

The past is clear, but what does the future hold?

There's little question that critical mass rapidly approaches as the sheer
numbers reach staggering proportions and countries around the world begin
to refuse to support the misguided, delusional, pork-barrel excesses of
this directionless disaster. Hardly a week passes that the leader of
another country doesn't suggest that some form of legalization is in order.
Most recently, the presidents of Uruguay and Mexico spoke the unspeakable.

With the cries for demand reduction at home and the current law enforcement
dilemma with racial profiling, the next predictable step is to carry the
war to the suburbs. Middle-class white America is fertile ground for the
drug war, but the outcry will be deafening.

When the war truly comes home, it will end.

As our ancestors discovered, prohibition doesn't work. Pass it on.

Mike Plylar

Kremmling, Colo.