PROHIBITION DIDN'T WORK FOR BOOZE

Your deputy chief of police in Wellesley needs to stop for a minute
and imagine prohibition on alcohol instead of prohibition on
marijuana. It's wrong for him to consider people like me criminals if
we choose to smoke marijuana instead of drinking booze.

Would he treat the users of alcohol as poorly as he does people who
smoke marijuana? I don't think so. I think, then, he should realize
that it should have been legalized years ago just as alcohol was. The
trade in marijuana should be taxed and it's use should not be a
reason for jail.

DARRAL GOOD Shoreline, Wash.