A few local residents seem concerned about the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy advertising in the Super Bowl last month in an attempt to connect drugs and terrorism. The suggestions that "casual drug users" are partly responsible for things like judges being murdered, and other atrocities, seem to have irked these folks -- especially when you consider that the U.S. government spent a few million dollars for these ads.

For over three decades, I was involved in the enforcement of the "drug war," on a local and international level at varying times.

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* As one who spent three decades in anti-narcotics law enforcement work for local and federal law enforcement, it was enlightening to see the truth finally printed. President Pastrana chronicles the personal experiences that he and the citizens of his beloved Colombia have undergone.

This sheds new illumination on the Arianna Huffingtons and other Hollywood impressionists and their view that "Traffic" and other films regarding the drug crisis should construct the drug policies of America. Treatment is necessary, and this country should take a step forward in that area, though if we abandon our drug war efforts, we have the war that Pastrana gives personal credence to.

Stanford Nelson

Redondo Beach

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