Help for Addicts

* So, Martin Sheen argues passionately against Prop. 36, because his son nearly died of a drug overdose (July 25). Yet his son got exactly the medical detox and treatment program that Prop. 36 advocates and did no jail time. Does Sheen think that a few years in prison would have helped Charlie Sheen? Or is there one law for poor black kids and another for the children of the rich and famous?

Such blatant hypocrisy.

KEVIN MURPHY

Los Angeles