Pubdate: Tue, 19 May 2009
Source: Los Angeles Times (CA)
Copyright: 2009 Los Angeles Times
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Author: Jean Holt Koch

ON THE TRAIL

Re "Tracking smugglers, the old-fashioned way," Column One, May
12

What a waste of time, money, gasoline and manpower it is to have
Border Patrol agents traipsing across the desert, working in 24-hour
overlapping shifts, sometimes driving hundreds of miles in their SUVs
to track marijuana smugglers -- who can outsmart it all.

It is time to legalize marijuana, tax it and put an end to this
ridiculous war on drugs.

Jean Holt Koch

Los Angeles
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