DRUG POLICY NEEDS TO BE CHANGED

An Anti-Drug advertisement in The Roanoke Times said "Illegal drugs are
estimated to cost America over $110 billion each year." It should have said
"Illegal-drug policy is estimated to cost America over $110 billion each year."

What could you do with a better policy? Well, you could replace the
thousands of acres of alfalfa that the government pays farmers to grow with
a taxable, capital-producing crop with hundreds of uses. Or you could begin
a factual, straightforward drug-education program rather than a $180 million
campaign of worthless ads.

Reagan D. Williams, Blacksburg