THE TOLL OF THE DRUG WAR

Re "Mexico vs. drug gangs: A deadly clash for control," June
3

The horror of Mexico's drug war should alert users of marijuana,
cocaine and heroin in the U.S. to this stark reality: By supporting
Mexican drug lords through their continued drug purchases, they have
at least some complicity in these deaths.

It is coincidental, if not somewhat ironic, that the number of our
troops who have died in Iraq about equals the total who have been
killed in the recent drug battles south of the border.

John N. Heil

Los Angeles