US WA: PUB LTE: Cease-Fire in 'War' Sorely Overdue

The Herald, 25 Sep 2011 – Regarding David Sirota’s Sept. 18 online column, “University of Hypocrisy”: The drug war is largely a war on marijuana smokers. In 2010, there were 853,839 marijuana arrests in the United States, almost 90 percent for simple possession.