DRUG ARREST REPORTS BASED ON PROPAGANDA

Re: May 26 special report on the drug Ecstasy.

Doesn't The Times think it's time for it and its media colleagues to
stop immersing us in a torrent of police press reports about drugs
without allowing a word from those arrested, their families or from
those who, like me, oppose drug prohibition?

Drug prohibition is nothing less than a brutal Hitler-like pogrom
designed by government to distract our attention from more important
issues by ruining the lives of the innocent few who ingest or sell
certain drugs.

Doesn't The Times think it's time it saw through the propaganda put
out by government that drugs are prohibited to protect users? Users
suffer more (adulterated drugs and jail time) when a drug is banned
as compared with when it legally is available. Besides, two of our
more harmful drugs, alcohol and tobacco, are legal. Are we better
than the Nazis because our drug laws threaten an innocent minority
with jail rather than with execution? Are we better than Adolf Hitler
because we persecute an innocent minority because of the drugs they
use rather than because of the religion they follow? I think not.

Doesn't The Times think it's time to renew its acquaintance with the
Bill of Rights?