DRUG LAWS NOT 'WELL MEANING'

To the Daily:

I must disagree with Josh Wickerham's portrayal of the
"Methamphetamines Anti-Proliferation Act of 1999" ("How Congress bans
information and outlaws communities" 6/19/00) as a well-meaning
attempt to stop the flow of dangerous drugs.

Given the utterly counterproductive results of hundreds of other drug
laws, it is impossible to attach any virtue to morons who promote the
destruction of the Constitution as a means of fighting drugs. Those
who endorse an utterly failed drug prohibition scheme are either
profoundly stupid or have another agenda in mind, such as
incarcerating blacks 13 times as often as whites for violating drug
laws.

There is nothing "well meaning," honest or virtuous about any new drug
law other than repeal.

Redford Givens
San Francisco, CA