Source: Skagit Valley Herald 1000 E. College Way Mount Vernon, WA 98273 http://www.newswest.com/svherald/ email: June 26, 1997 Alcohol We glorify this dangerous drug A rose by any other name smells the same. Well a drug by any other name kills the same. The overdose of a 14yearold girl on alcohol should drive that point home. In fact more young people will die as a result of alcohol than all illegal drugs combined. So the cute story on beercan tossing at Skagit Speedway seems way out in left field. I mean, what's next, hypodermicneedle darts or crackcocaine rock golf? The hypocrisy of this drug war never ceases to amaze me. We attack people for using some substances, while glorifying far more dangerous drugs like alcohol through television and newspapers. If it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck it is a duck. If it impairs like a drug and kills like a drug, it's a drug. Nick Young Mount Vernon