Re The Last Days of The War on Drugs (Focus -- Sept.
26):

Thank you, Gwynne Dyer, for producing the first balanced account of
Dutch drug policy I have seen in a North American newspaper. I have
been upset many a time by the way Dutch society is pictured in what
are supposed to be the "best" newspapers.

You would think we routinely kill of our senior citizens when they
become troublesome, think of abortion as another type of birth
control, wean our babies on marijuana and earn our pin money sitting
behind a window in the red-light district.

The fact that our statistics in all those areas always prove the
pragmatic Dutch policies to be extremely successful is generally
ignored. What a relief to see an article that actually presents the
relevant figures and represents my country for what it is: one with a
highly successful drug policy that has resulted in one of the lowest
rates of hard-drug addiction in the Western world.

Ingee Genee,
Lethbridge, Alberta