FEDS' DRUG PRIORITIES MIXED UP

Your July 7 editorial was right on target.

While local governments are struggling with a methamphetamine
epidemic, the Office of National Drug Control Policy is spending
millions on a "reefer madness revisited" ad campaign.

This reflects a truly bizarre sense of priorities. Local law
enforcement is where the rubber meets the road. And it's not marijuana
that concerns them, but rather meth. Meanwhile, an out-of-touch
federal government continues to be obsessed with marijuana. The tax
dollars wasted on the federal agency's misleading anti-marijuana
campaign would be better spent on treatment for methamphetamine addicts.

Robert Sharpe

MPA policy analyst Common Sense for Drug Policy