VENTURA GETS IT RIGHT ON FAILED DRUG WAR

Regarding your June 4 editorial, "Marijuana laws are not City
Council's business": I can respect the fact that the Duluth City
Council, like all city councils, has important local business to take
care of. But when it comes to debating the nation's "war on drugs"
there is no debate at any level of government.

The federal government wages its war on drugs without allowing debate,
as do all state governments. Billions of dollars are wasted on this
despotic war, not to mention civil liberties violations, and we can't
discuss it because there are more important things.

Minnesota's former Gov. Jesse Ventura is calling for a debate on
America's failed and costly war on drugs. Bring it on.

Randy Vizyak

Mukwonago, Wis.