DON'T LET DRUG WAR TAKE DOWN U.S.

To the editor: No legitimate business shoots the competition. No
legitimate business would sell drugs to children or recruit them to
sell to their peers. This happened during alcohol prohibition and it
is happening today. Once again, prohibition creates more danger to the
user and society.

The White House continues to ignore the lessons of the "noble
experiment" and truth has been suppressed about the medicinal use of
cannabis, giving drug prohibition a very sinister aspect.

Like flagellant priests, overzealous drug warriors draw blood daily
from their brothers for their medicinal and recreational drug use.
Don't let them carry this nation one step further down this depraved
path!

This is what sends the wrong message to our children. Our founders
dreamed of life without fear. Kind parents wish that for their children.

Drug abuse, including alcohol, is a medical problem and we'll do a
better job of keeping kids drug free and inebriated folks off the road
with compassionate policy offering helpful treatment.

We can't keep drugs out of prisons or teacher's lounges, Eagle Scout's
honor, we will never be a drug free America!

The Controlled Substances Act is one of those bad laws like the
Fugitive Slave Act and the Volstead Act. When juries refuse to convict
on "drug crime," drug warriors will be politically dead bodies. Jury
nullification is a constitutional power tool we the people pack!

Colleen Minter, better known as artist/activist Bonnie Colleen McCool,
Stephenville