Stan White has a good point ("Cannabis not evil," Feb. 28, p. 4) that D.A.R.E. is in many ways a policy failure, in particular in regard to marijuana. However, he misses the opportunity to point out the wider scope of the failures of marijuana prohibition. Although 100 million Americans admit to having tried marijuana and 72 percent of them think that its users should not be jailed, the United States continues to spend billions of dollars a year trying to eliminate the use of a drug whose harmful effects are arguably less severe than those of alcohol or tobacco.

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