ALL THAT POT EDUCATION FAILED!

Your article, "Pot-Leaf lookalike leads to book redesign" (Sept. 14),
made me laugh.

All that work Bill Conde put into educating people about hemp and
cannabis, all his grief in bucking a system bent against him and
after a mere five or six years since his departure to Belize the
locals get spooked by a maple leaf.

While not quite up there with Janet Jackson's Superbowl gaffe, the
good folks employed here in the People's Republic of Eugene can be
proud knowing that no good leaf goes unburned.

Besides, as Conde made clear, lying about cannabis is the job of the
federal government.

Allan Erickson, Drug Policy Forum of Oregon, Eugene