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Dear Mr. Buckley:

My campaign asserts that “American Democracy must end the War on Drugs, or the War on Drugs will end American Democracy.” As a Democrat, it causes me some consternation that the mainstream heroes of the battle against the War on Drugs are mostly of the Right. Here in Colorado, outspoken opposition to the warrantless searches of federal housing projects proposed by Attorney General Reno is led not by my friend, the scholarly Democratic Representative David Skaggs, but by Republican Representative Scott McInnis. Should I laugh or cry?

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William F. Buckley Jr.

William F. Buckley Jr. founded National Review magazine in 1955.

Dear Mr. Buckley:

My campaign asserts that “American Democracy must end the War on Drugs, or the War on Drugs will end American Democracy.” As a Democrat, it causes me some consternation that the mainstream heroes of the battle against the War on Drugs are mostly of the Right. Here in Colorado, outspoken opposition to the warrantless searches of federal housing projects proposed by Attorney General Reno is led not by my friend, the scholarly Democratic Representative David Skaggs, but by Republican Representative Scott McInnis. Should I laugh or cry?