DRUG LAWS ARE NO JOKING MATTER

Regarding Al Kamen's Jan. 18 column " 'Reefer Madness' for the YouTube
Generation":

This article is consistent with my hypothesis that the rules of
professional conduct of journalists or some style manual require that
articles about drug policy include a joke about chips, brownies or
junk food. Can reporters and editors be so humor-deprived that they
always have to joke about laws and policies that every year put
hundreds of thousands of cannabis users in handcuffs, give them a
criminal record and cost hundreds of millions of dollars on pointless
police overtime. Ha, ha, ha, "pass the chips"; I'm dying with laughter.

Eric E. Sterling

Chevy Chase