POINTLESS AND CRUEL

Thank you for Michael Serazio's excellent article. It is very informative
and well written. I especially appreciated the interviews with Dr. Ron Paul
and Alan Bock.

Several Libertarian Party candidates have spoken out for drug reform and
are waging active campaigns for the U.S. Congress (www.lpcandidate.com or
www.lp.org). In District 136 (Galleria-Memorial Villages), I am running for
the Texas legislature. The focal point of my campaign is the benefit of
drug relegalization. These benefits include lower taxes (throwing peaceful,
nonviolent people in jail costs plenty).

Drug prohibition doesn't work. It diverts law enforcement resources away
from apprehending murderers, rapists and thieves who richly deserve to be
punished. But arresting sick and dying people for the "crime" of trying to
alleviate their pain by smoking marijuana is inhumane.

Most Democrat and Republican incumbents aren't going to push for even the
most obvious and humanitarian reform of medical marijuana. Those serious
about freedom of choice in medicine, and ending drug prohibition, should
vote Libertarian.

Thomas Clark

Hedwig Village