NATION'S DRUG POLICY IS A DANGEROUS SHAM

To the editor:

Americans aren't gonna take it any more?

What we're not going to take is the prohibition of certain politically
selected substances.

You better hope that when that drug task force busts down the door that
they've gotten the right address.

The list of innocent citizens who have been killed by errant drug raids is
long, disheartening and growing each day.

What I do in my home is nobody's business but mine as long as I'm not
harming anyone else. The drug war is unconstitutional and should have never
come to be.

It's a shame that it's taken Americans more than 50 years to discover what
a misguided and counterproductive policy our drug war is.

Our children will look back on the past century and ask, "What the heck
were they thinking?"

The drug war profits only those doing the prohibiting, namely law
enforcement and certain government agencies.

My children aren't any safer. Are yours?

Drug dealers won't card your child before selling to him or her. At least
in a legally regulated environment, we have a means of going after those
who violate distribution laws.

Under our current unregulated black market environment we've caused a plant
such as marijuana to become worth it's weight in gold. Yet we expect that
nobody will sell it to the millions of otherwise law-abiding citizens who
are demanding it.

What a joke. And many Americans are falling for it.

Scott Russ,

Baton Rouge, La.