Thank you for the editorial, "Pro Bono" (Nov. 22), which enlightens
people (as if many people do not already know) to the fact that legal
pharmaceutical drugs constitute the No. 1 health hazard to Americans
today. Any objective study clearly shows that the vast majority of
pharmaceutical drugs are profoundly expensive, ineffective and often
quite dangerous.

And yet we continue the absurd "war on drugs" and create the boom
prison business wherein we incarcerate almost 2 million people, many
of whom are doing time on various drug charges.

And yet the tobacco industry and other white-collar criminals
continue to pollute the minds of tens of millions of people with
highly suspect "drugs" (chemicals).

We live in a funny world, don't we?

Da Vid,
M.D. Director S.F. Medical Research Foundation Mill Valley