ANTI-DRUG ZEAL IS ABSURD

Dear Sir,

I see now that even proper and respectable Bermuda is being drawn into the
theatre of the absurd caused by the US-led international drug prohibition.

I could not help but chuckle to myself while reading your recent story
about Bermuda soldiers smelling enough like cannabis to alert the
ubiquitous drug dogs upon returning from training in the ganja capital of
the world.

Quite a funny story, actually. Somehow reminiscent of an old Keystone Cops
episode.

The sad part, of course, is that the self-respect and dignity of the
Bermuda soldiers was sullied at the hands of this most pernicious drug
prohibition. But even Abraham Lincoln knew that prohitibion was harmful to
any society. He said that "prohibition strikes a blow at the very
principles upon which our government was founded."

Indeed, as events in Bermuda have demonstrated once again, prohibition
seeks out dignity and common sense and destroys them slowly but thoroughly.
I always thought you folks in Bermuda had a little more sense than to
follow the mindless zeal of the American drug prohibition.

RICHARD SINNOTT

Fort Pierce, Florida