Pubdate: Mon, 10 Sep 2001 Source: News & Observer (NC) Copyright: 2001 The News and Observer Publishing Company Contact: http://www.news-observer.com/ Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/304 Referenced: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v01/n1575/a06.html Author: Alice Fisher HARMFUL DRUG LAWS Thanks for running David Broder's Aug. 27 column "For DEA's leader, food for thought in crammed prisons." The people of our fine state need to know just how full our federal and state prisons are with nonviolent drug offenders. We could better use the money this costs us for drug rehabilitation and getting these people back to productive lives and back with their families. It is very evident to most people that our current policy hasn't changed the availability of drugs to those who want them, and locking them all up is most ridiculous. My family is one of the many families affected by our current policy and we hope that it will be changed soon and that our son will not have to stay in federal prison until 2014 as his release date states. ALICE FISHER, Canton - --- MAP posted-by: Don Beck