Letters: Still a drug war

Re “Overkill in the war on pot,� Jan. 22

Kudos to Marie Myung-Ok Lee for her outstanding Op-Ed article on the federal government’s intransigence on marijuana policy.

I’d like to add that as a U.S. Senate candidate from Illinois in 2004, Barack Obama said that the war on drugs had been an “utter failure.� So what has President Obama done about this failure? Escalate the war.

Kirk Muse

Mesa, Ariz.

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