Drug Testing

Re "Bill Would Fund School Based Drug Testing Program," June 20. Yes,
Mr. Rogan, "it is time to quit talking about student drug abuse and do
something about it." It's time to stop the hypocrisy and legalize
drugs. Our kids are smart enough to know when their parents are being
dishonest. Why can drinkers drink and smokers smoke, but tokers and
poppers and shooters must go underground to do their drugs? We as a
society have been hypocritical for too long. Once this insane and
unwinnable war on drug use is finally ended, we can fight the real
battle, drug abuse. Until all our resources are aimed at curbing abuse
of all drugs, alcohol and cigarettes included, we will never be truly
free to pursue our lives with the dignity and freedom we all deserve.

EDMUND LUPINSKI, Glendale

Rep. James Rogan must be trying to become the new Dan Lungren with his
punitive post Littleton drug testing bill, which would bribe states
into drug testing their children with federal funds. For the House to
take up something like this after gutting gun control would be typical
of it avoiding the true issues and once more scapegoating drug users
(in this case completely unfairly, since the Littleton gun toters
tested negative for drugs). I urge the California delegation to put
[the bill] where it belong sin the dustbin.

ELLEN KOMP, San Francisco