DEA WILL YANK DOCTOR'S LICENSES

In "Affirmative Action" you contend that the "political import is hard to
read" at the recent passage, again, of Oregon's assisted-suicide law. Not
for our beloved Drug Enforcement Administration! The DEA has already
announced that it interpets federal statutes to mean that it can (and will)
yank the prescription license of any physician prescribing lethal doses of
controlled substances, especially in Oregon.

It's not the men in black knocking at your door, dear. It's the DEA come to
torment you while you die. Secret police as caregiver? I feel better
already.

Deran Ludd
Seattle