SURE, THROW MORE MONEY AT IT

To the Editor:

I'm writing about "Grant a welcome weapon in war on meth Problem" (Aug. 23,
p. 2).

When our war on drugs began in 1970, the United States didn't have
much of a meth problem. We obviously do today.

In 1969, the federal drug enforcement budget was $65 million. Today
it's $19.2 billion. (These figures don't include the cost of
incarceration nor the state and local costs).

The obvious answer to our nation's drug problem is more money since we
have only increased our drug war budget by 29,500 percent since 1969.
Obviously, we must throw more money down the drug war rat hole in our
attempt to nullify the immutable law of supply and demand.

Kirk Muse