U.S. DRUG CZAR SHOULD LEARN FROM CANADA

Major kudos to Jim McNalty for his outstanding Article (Opinion, Dec 20,
"Butt Out, John Walters"). The next time U.S. drug czar John Walters comes
to Canada offering his unsolicited and unwelcome advice, please tell him
where to shove it. The U.S. should be seeking drug policy advice - not
giving it.

No other nation in history has spent more of its resources fighting drug
abuse nor arrested more of its citizens for drug law violations than the U.
S. Yet no other nation has been less successful in solving its drug abuse
problems. My advice to Canada: carefully observe U. S. drug policy, then do
the opposite. Don't follow us - we're lost.

Kirk Muse, Mesa, Ariz.