SMOKE SCREEN

Fort Worth, Tex. -- Lynn Crosbie's recent comments on marijuana (Testing
Positive With The Stoner Demographic -- June 5) reminded me of Reefer
Madness, the 1930s U.S. government propaganda film. I especially liked her
comment that users are, "by nature slow and methodical people."

I stopped using pot two weeks before starting the police academy. During my
seven years of use I became fluent in German and French, received a BA and
bench-pressed 130 per cent of my body weight. Slow and methodical types
include hundreds of professional athletes, the current mayor of New York
and the former president and vice-president of the United States.

I am neither for nor against marijuana. I do know that pot smoking causes
law enforcement zero problems. The prohibition of pot causes police
officers and others to die every day. And for what?

Howard J. Wooldridge

Retired Police Officer