DRUG TESTING HEAVY HANDED

Regarding the Feb. 11 article about Durham schools considering drug
testing, one is tempted to suggest that the board be commanded to squat and
pee in front of a stranger to prove their purity. But that path leads only
to a more totalitarian society.

The only way we can ever hope for one iota of control or regulation with
regard to illegal drug use by our children is through legalization of
responsible adult use. See Amendment 21.

To swallow the lies required to prop up the pogrom of prohibition requires
enormous skill in the practice of doublethink. A great measure of what is
termed intelligence is that critters learn from experience. Societally, we
are failing the test of self-government evidenced by the continued,
escalating prohibition policies.

Jay Bergstrom, Forest Ranch