TARGET ALL IMPAIRED DRIVERS

Re: Roadside drug tests needed by Frank Landry (Oct. 23).

I find it interesting that these roadside "drug tests" weren't being pushed
before now. If cannabis was even fully legalized it wouldn't be much more of
an influence on driving than it already is. If use goes up it will be
slight. And it could even go down after a period of time.

Impaired drivers need to be taken off the roads, whether they are impaired
due to alcohol, heroin, cannabis or Prozac.

This is just another scare tactic used to continue Reefer Madness. The
police just can't stand the fact that they won't be able to harass cannabis
smokers for much longer. Nothing good has come of prohibition. Thirty years
of the drug war is quite enough.

Scott Russ

Baton Rouge, La.

(Our public car insurer, MPI, says there are currently "one or two" accident
claims a year in which cannabis impairment is detected as a factor.)