Pubdate: Wed, 17 Nov 1999
Source: Los Angeles Times (CA)
Copyright: 1999 Los Angeles Times
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Author: Danny Terwey

DRUG ESTIMATES

Re "More Drugs Flow Into U.S. Than Estimated," Nov. 14: The recent revision
of illegal drug production estimates will (hopefully) lead to some sanity
in our federal government. As we increase our guesses of incoming drugs, we
must decrease our guesses of confiscated drugs. So now we're capturing
maybe 5% of the traffic? Two percent? Perhaps we just allocate more money
to the drug warriors. They have given us such good results to date!

Danny Terwey, Santa Cruz

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