IS DRUG USE DRUG ABUSE

Please, I'm begging you, please make these drug stories ("Pot bust by the
book - police," March 9, page 12) more objective and thus less akin to
pro-government propaganda by including the comments of those like me who
oppose our unjust and shameful drug prohibition law.

Alternatively, you could simply append at the end of these items a
statement like, "Many feel that drug prohibition (1) is illogical because
other harmful drugs are allowed, (2) is an abuse of the right of free
adults to ingest any drug, (3) causes more harm because of adulterated
drugs and crime than the drugs themselves, or (4) is ineffective and a
waste of law enforcement resources because human beings will always want
drugs."

Who am I kidding? You won't make these changes because formerly independent
media are now submerged into corporate chains where focus on advertising
revenues means zero tolerance for controversy.

Alan Randell,

Victoria