Pubdate: Thu, 09 Sep 1999
Date: 09/09/1999
Source: Guardian Weekly, The (UK)
Author: Harry Bego

"Sex and drugs may provide colourful battlefields, but the war is
fought over the 'real issues', after all," Julian Borger concludes,
commenting on George W Bush's campaign hiccups (Bush stumbles as media
sniff scandal, August 26).

So, after nearly a century of prohibition, drugs aren't a real issue.
Yes, well, maybe. Hundreds of thousands of people who have a criminal
record, or who are in prison, or whose careers have been ruined - in
short, people who, unlike Mr Bush, have had their lives wrecked by
insane drug laws - might feel just a little differently.

HARRY BEGO
Utrecht, The Netherlands