POT BUSTS A WASTE OF RESOURCES

Re "Legalizing pot would only be beginning of problems" (Comment,
April 21):

With the possibility of marijuana becoming legal in Los Angeles and
detectives being forced to furlough because the city cannot afford for
them to work overtime, why were over 25 LAPD officers being used to
make a marijuana bust that yielded only one pound of marijuana? How
toothless can these busts be when the legality of marijuana seems to
be just around the corner? Why is limited use of precious law
enforcement time being used for these ridiculous minimum yield busts?
Could it be that County District Attorney Steve Cooley and Los Angeles
City Attorney Carmen Trutanich have ganged up on marijuana
distributors, anticipating an overwhelming passage of the proposition
legalizing marijuana?

William S. Kroger

Los Angeles