The greatest conservative minds, William F. Buckley, Milton Friedman, Henry Hyde, figured out long ago that the government’s War on Drugs was lost. Their conclusion was that replacing one scourge – private drug-alcohol abuse – with another scourge – a vast and unconstitutional government pogrom that imprisoned millions, enriched criminal gangs, seized billions of dollars in private property, cost trillions of dollars and weakened the Bill of Rights – was not progress. After billions spent and lives destroyed, we have the same problem we had before this war: rising levels of private drug abuse.

John Frary said on MPBN: “You’re asking a conservative Republican whether he wants to legalize marijuana. Charlie, I have to tell you that I’m inclined more and more to favor that. That it should be treated like alcohol and regulated like alcohol. That people who sell marijuana to minors should be penalized like those who sell alcohol to minors. I think this has been going on and on, has cost huge sums of money. We’re not winning this war on drugs. The whole thing may have to be given a whole new look.”

Frary is not for drugs, but [is] opposed to the War on Drugs, and [is] tired of people pretending marijuana is heroin.

Frary not only thinks for himself; he tells you what he thinks. Why aren’t we building a refinery at Loring or using helicopters that should be in Afghanistan looking for Osama bin Laden rather than looking for weeds in Maine?

William Reid III

chairman, Frary for Congress

New Sharon