FLAWED DRUG POLICY FILLING OUR PRISONS

Many organizations are working to bring drug-law reform to the Carolinas,
and only by publication of such commentary as Robert Sharpe's "Change drug
laws in U.S." (Jan. 8 For the record) will the debate really get going
here. Thank you.

The United States currently has 5 percent of the world's population, yet 25
percent of the world's prison population. In South Carolina, non-violent
drug law violators make up the largest percentage of the prison population,
and marijuana smokers account for the largest percentage of those arrested
for non-violent drug law violations.

It's time to rethink our out-of-control "war on drugs."

Stephen Levine, Johns Island, S.C.