POT WORTH TOO MUCH

Editor: I'm writing about Doane Yawger's story, "Drug Bust Nets 1,750
marijuana plants" (May 15). I'm sure many marijuana growers and sellers
are thankful to the Merced Multi-Agency Task Force for this latest
marijuana bust and others like it. Without operations like this,
marijuana would be worth what other easy-to-grow weeds are worth -- very
little.

Thanks to the Drug Enforcement Administration and other so-called
"drug warriors," the easy-to-grow weed is worth more than pure gold --
and completely tax free. Any marijuana growers, sellers or traffickers
arrested will soon be replaced. They always are.

KIRK MUSE

Mesa, Ariz.