Regarding the Feb. 16 article "Kyoto Univ. law student busted for pot": It seems shameful that both the United States and Japan still criminalize the use of marijuana while dispensing by prescription horrible and lethal drugs to their citizens. Does anyone do anything about it until people die? I, for one, have been the victim of four such drug errors; my heart is now injured. And The Japan Times is concerned about marijuana?!

carlene woodward