Bravo to Scheer for exposing the hypocrisy of American drug laws.
Before Bush, any question about drugs was just an opportunity for the
Republicans to demagogue.

Anyone who suggested the current drug laws are not working was tarred
with the "soft on crime" or the "you want kids to have access to
drugs?" brush.

Now that a Republican stands accused maybe we can get down to the
important questions of what it is we're trying to accomplish with drug
laws and whether we're succeeding. To my mind, drug laws only benefit
criminals and those (the alcohol and tobacco industries) that don't
want the competition. I wonder if they've been paying the Republicans
all this time to make sure drugs stay illegal?

Eric Spencer Lee
Pasadena