FAILING DRUG WAR

Yet another article on the failing drug war ("Drugs cast shadow on
border cities," March 21, by Scott Burns).

Prohibition profits not only feed the drug lords, they also feed law
enforcement, customs, the prison industry, the drug testing industry,
the Immigration and Naturalization Service, the CIA, the FBI, and the
Drug Enforcement Administration through inflated budgets.

Something is seriously wrong with our federal government. Voters in
eight states have said yes to medical marijuana by the millions. Very
prominent people have come forward to say the drug war isn't working.
And still the federal government throws in billions more dollars and
pushes in to another country to continue the drug war.

New York City is pushing the drug war so hard that they just killed
the third unarmed man in 13 months over drugs.

Los Angeles law enforcement officials were so eager to have a drug war
that they may have to terminate and prosecute over 100 officers for
planting drugs.

We are hearing this type of news almost weekly.

I think the American people are starting to see through the lies. It's
getting way too obvious!

" ... prohibition law strikes a blow at the very principle upon which
our Government was founded." Abe Lincoln, Illinois House of
Representatives, Dec. 18, 1840.

Larry Seguin, Lisbon, N.Y.