I find it extremely poor journalism to print such a letter from an
anonymous source ["Hurrah for the pot police," April 26]. Obviously
that letter was authored by either a "dope-cop" or a "religious
fanatic" (or, likely, both). If it had been a "meaningful" letter, it
might have made sense. But why print a letter like that? Just trying
to stir up debate?

Actually, whoever wrote that letter did a huge favor to all the
organizations fighting to make cannabis legal and make "dope-cops"
obsolete. We put his letter and others like it on our walls, and
distribute it to others, because it helps us to mobilize the masses
against his kind!

We take our American rights seriously we will overgrow!

David Malcolm,
Currie Portland, Ore.

Editor's note: Stop! It was satire a sarcastic diatribe against the
war on drugs.

Seldom does a letter provoke such inflamed and misunderstood
responses as did "Hurrah for the pot police."

And because the letter, published in our April 26 issue, was run on
our Web site, it elicited reactions not only from local readers, but
from Internet users in other states and Canada.