CRUEL DRUG PROSECUTIONS

Instead of complaining about how prosecutors are treating Rush
Limbaugh (editorial page, March 26), Roy Black would do better to
criticize the laws that make such prosecutions possible. Mr. Black
decries common prosecutorial drug-war tactics that have put hundreds
of thousands of users and sellers in prison. People are regularly
locked up for many years for far less than Mr. Limbaugh's alleged
offenses, their lives shattered, their families left to suffer. When
will we realize that this is unnecessary and does more harm than the
drugs themselves?

Harry D. Fisher

Woodland Hills, Calif.