Pubdate: 3 Mar 1999 Source: Seattle Times (WA) Copyright: 1999 The Seattle Times Company Contact: http://www.seattletimes.com/ Author: Meril Draper, Brinnon WAR ON DRUGS Help stop the waste of millions of tax dollars in `drug war' Please help put a stop to the madness that some call the "war on drugs." You, being in the forefront of the media, know that it is failing. Please help put a stop to the waste of millions of dollars we taxpayers pay. Please help put a stop to the prosecution of sick people. What harm is the government saving us from when a person, sick or not, smokes cannabis? The only element that is dangerous related to cannabis is the black market that is brought on by the "war on drugs." Cannabis users are not violent. No one to date has ever died from cannabis. Yet, thousands die every year from alchohol and tobacco. Meril Draper, Brinnon - --- MAP posted-by: Mike Gogulski