RESPONDS TO NESTERUK LETTER

To The Oak Ridger,

Rachel Sewell Nesteruk should ask the police themselves, "Why are we
wasting our valuable police resources... on the War on Drugs" (Police
should tackle more important crimes than drugs, Nov. 14)?

While police state "We don't make the laws, We just enforce them" and, "If
You don't like the laws change them," fact is unionized police
organizations do help make the laws and invest great time and effort to
keep this gold mine in the war on drugs and a plant. One vivid example is
in Nevada where vocal police opposition to re-legalizing cannabis
(marijuana) helped defeat the recent ballot question of adult cannabis use.

Do police feel safer busting adult citizens using cannabis as opposed to a
burglar? For job security do police unions compete for government drug war
money against treatment centers that have no unions? Why do police insist
on caging humans for using a plant, instead of actually serving and
protecting citizens?

The original prohibition on a national scale was worse than the booze
prohibited and the sequel, now, on an international scale is worse. At the
very minimum, North America must re-legalize cannabis especially when You
consider the worst side effects of cannabis are police inflicted.

Stan White

Dillon, Colo