THEY SHOULD CALL IT OPERATION SISYPHUS

Operation Alesia would be more accurately named Operation Sisyphus.
When the thousands of illegal pot plants are burned I'd like to see
Congressman Wally Herger toss a large bale of our taxpayer dollars
onto the pyre.

In the last century, we saw exploding stills in the national forests,
and the Central Valley was besotted with drunk waterfowl, all thanks
to the Noble Experiment of alcohol prohibition. The results of that
experiment are in: Prohibition causes more problems than the
prohibited substances.

Shasta County would do well to follow the sensible lead of Mendocino
County in urging state and federal lawmakers to legalize pot. Herger
should be pushing legislation to legalize cannabis.

Jay Bergstrom

Forest Ranch