STEWART MADE SENSE

Martha Stewart is to be commended for making the case for alternatives
to incarceration for nonviolent drug offenders. Instead of adding to
what is already the highest incarceration rate in the world, we should
be funding drug treatment. It's worth noting that tobacco use has
declined considerably in recent years. Public education efforts are
paying off.

Apparently mandatory minimum sentences, civil asset forfeiture, random
drug testing and racial profiling are not necessarily the most cost-
effective means of discouraging unhealthy choices.

MARK SHARPE

Washington, D.C.

The writer is a policy analyst with Common Sense for Drug Policy.