Thank you for your unequivocal condemnation of the
"Anti-methamphetamine Proliferation Act" (editorial, "Basic freedoms:
The next victim of the war on drugs," May 31, page 6B). This
abomination is but the latest of a long list of assaults on both
common sense and our constitutional freedoms.

It's not inaccurate to say that in the nearly three decades since
Nixon declared "war" on drugs, we have become progressively less free
and secure - even as our streets are ever more inundated with the
dangerous products of a thriving criminal industry.

The role of the press in this unhappy affair has not always been
commendable; far too often our newspapers have either uncritically
repeated the downright nonsense of drug war advocates or failed to
speak out against the desperate excesses of their failing policy.

Thanks, again.

Better late than never.

Tom O'Connell, San Mateo, Calif., via TRNonline