WHY KEEP FIGHTING POINTLESS DRUG WAR?

The nation's drug czar, John Walters, has announced the start of his new 25
cities initiative to help combat the nation's drug problem at the local
level. Does he really think going to the 25 largest cities in the United
States is going to help solve the problems at local levels?

What kind of plan is this? It is another failed plan, another waste of our
tax dollars. A chance for him to sugarcoat the drug war. This 30-year war
has not decreased supply or demand. It is a wasteful, counterproductive
government jobs program that creates the crime it claims to protect us from
while tramping on the Bill of Rights in the process. The countries that
have legalized, regulated or have decriminalized marijuana are not in a
state of anarchy. Why does the U.S. government keep insisting we fight this
war?

Richard J. Rawlings

Founder, Illinois Marijuana Party

Bartonville