DRUG CZAR TO VISIT DENVER

John Walters, director of National Drug Control Policy, will be in
Colorado Sunday and Monday to discuss marijuana use with state
officials and talk with high school athletic directors about steroid
use.

On Friday, Sens. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, and Tom Harkin, D-Iowa,
asked President Bush to fire Walters for focusing too much on
marijuana and not enough on methamphetamines. Sens. Wayne Allard,
R-Colo., and John Salazar, D-Colo., weren't available for comment.

Walters was in Colorado in February and is returning, in part, because
Denver passed an initiative to legalize marijuana use in the city, and
petitions are circulating to lift the restrictions statewide.