ROY CLANCY seems to know a lot about marijuana (June 2) so maybe he can
answer a simple question. Can he name any significant study of drug policy
in the last 100 years which supports criminal prohibition of marijuana?

I run the world's largest on-line library of drug policy -- the one that
people often go to for the "crumbs" (as Clancy calls them) to support their
arguments in favour of reform.

All the research tells the same essential story -- that the marijuana laws
were based on racism, ignorance and the most laughable kind of nonsense,
and that they should have been repealed long ago because they do more harm
than good.

If Clancy knows of any serious research which supports his opinion, I would
dearly love to hear about it. But I have been asking people like him for
the last 10 years and nobody has come up with even one such study yet.

Clifford A. Schaffer

(As Clancy predicted, the Internet activists weigh in.)