RESPONSES - JOEL MILLER ON CAL THOMAS

If Hashish, Why Not Tobacco?

The article, "Drug policy and my pal, Cal" by Joel Miller was one of his best yet!

What drives the insane and violent war on some drug, using people and all the rest of us, is the fundamental dishonesty, hypocrisy, and immorality of those who support exempting tobacco and alcohol -- the two most deadly drugs -- from the drug laws.

Here are three questions every politician and law enforcement officer needs to answer:

1. How is the public interest, health, safety, and welfare served by the exemptions of tobacco and alcohol from the Controlled Substances Act?

2. What is the rational basis for the exemptions of tobacco and alcohol from the Controlled Substances Act?

3) What are the scientific and medical uses of alcohol and tobacco as approved by the federal government?

After we get answers to these questions we can have a conversation about what a sane, rational, just, fair, honest, peaceful, consistent, constitutional, workable drug policy would look like, compared to our current national drug policy.

Tom Barrus, Pharmacist

O Ye Of Little Faith

Thank you for putting drugs and Christianity into the right perspective. I have been a Christian for 25 years and have always argued with people about legalizing drugs. I was an outsider, a sinner for thinking such things. I printed out your piece, "One toke over the line, sweet Jesus?" It has some very valid points.

If we keep discussing legalization maybe some day it will happen and hundreds of innocent people won't die every year accidentally with illegal search and seizure tactics and thousands of non violent drug users will stop serving mandatory sentences while the rapist and robbers go free.

Diana Woodward