ECSTASY CRACKDOWN

So, shut the schools

Re: "Ecstasy use spurs shift in Denver's liquor policy," March 24 news story.

If Denver's enforcement of liquor policies at nightclubs that serve liquor
at all-ages shows is in response to two recent deaths involving Ecstasy,
perhaps Mayor Webb and Denver police should shut down the public schools.
If memory serves, that is where Brittney Chambers and her 15- and
16-year-old friends obtained the drug: in the school bathroom, not in a
Denver nightclub. Secondly, maybe they should kick teens out of their own
homes, because that is where Chambers took the drug that eventually killed her.

It's obvious some stupid teens and adults are dealing drugs at these
venues. While club owners are attempting to prohibit this, most of these
incidents are isolated, and anyone with a shred of common sense knows that
drugs of all kinds are available in our schools, at malls, inside teen-only
clubs, in parks and on city streets.

No wonder the war on drugs is a failure. When policemen and politicians
react with very little common sense, there is little chance that their
policies will solve any problems we face as a society.

PHILIP LUCERO

Denver