THE FOLLY OF DRUG PROHIBITION

I read with interest Ms. Lisa Kaiser's reporting on how the Milwaukee
County district attorney views the pot scene in "Want Saner Marijuana
Laws?" (Oct. 18). Ultimate reform must come from Washington, and like
most huge issues, it will one day have its day at the polls.

America is ever-so-slowly waking up to the folly of drug prohibition,
especially marijuana, and may one day come to know they have been
propagandized into a $42 billion a year "Blackwater" operation that is
never supposed to end, complete with asset forfeiture, corruption,
expanding prisons and drug testing. It tears us apart as a country and
we must fix it. The internecine relationship of guns, money and drugs
worldwide can only be reined in through regulation and treatment. The
talking points of the drug war industrial complex are based on fear,
gutter science and racism thrown in when necessary, like any war--but
this one is against ourselves. I ask District Attorney John Chisholm
to contact LEAP, Law Enforcement Against Prohibition, www.leap.cc, and
have a visit with his colleagues to discuss prohibition as law
enforcement professionals and not drug war sycophants.

Peter Christopher

Hurdle Mills, N.C.