LOCKER SEARCHES WON'T TARGET DANGEROUS DRUGS

As concerns the intended searches of student lockers and the random
drug testing of teachers, I would like for the Drug Enforcement
Administration to tell us exactly why marijuana is a dangerous drug.

I understand the parents would want the drug testing of the teachers
in the hopes of preventing their children from being negatively
influenced. However, which drugs are we going to test for -- aspirin,
cough drops and vitamins?

Searching student lockers might catch some drugs. But there is such a
thing as an illegal search when there in not enough probable cause.
"Probable cause" is defined as "that which causes reasonable and
prudent men, not legal technicians, to act."

I would recommend that the government read up on the interpretation of
the Fourth Amendment to the Constitution, for example, Mapp v. Ohio,
1961.

I am a taxpayer and I do not like to see my tax dollars wasted. The
average government employee and political hack spend taxpayers' money
like it comes from some sort of bottomless pit. If marijuana is a
relatively harmless recreational drug, as I suspect, then the
government should not waste our tax money prosecuting
marijuana-related offenses. It is the harder addictive drugs, such as
heroin, cocaine, crack and crystal methamphetamine, not marijuana,
which cause people to have compulsive self-destructive behavior. When
children associate with dealers who also deal the harder drugs is when
the parents and government should be concerned.

Phil Robertson,

Honolulu