This is in regards to the letters by Brighid Zabel and Sarah Avrin ("Collegian Pot Articles Insensitive to Suspects" and "Police, Feature Stories Show Need for Decency," Jan. 26).

The people arrested aren't owed any sensitivity. The article was essentially one big police log like the ones published daily. They publish the news and they also publish lifestyle articles. Those articles do not journalistically or ethically intertwine. What is truly indecent here are those who turn a blind eye or an apathetic backside to the harsh realities of drug laws.

Pennsylvania is better than some. In New Jersey, those convicted would be even more affected than they currently are. Good people get wrapped up in these laws everyday. Any of those people published in the article with a count of "criminal usage of a communication facility" are being charged with, most likely multiple, felonies. If you want to see "absurd," do some research on that charge. If you want to see insensitive, read up on the massive waste of time, energy, money and resources the marijuana laws create in society.

You can't blame the Collegian, the district attorney, the police or anyone else involved. Hopefully the system will employ the conditional restraints available to it. This is the way it is until somebody cares enough to change it. Those that see the inherent insanity in trying to legislate and incarcerate to affect the usage of marijuana and do not take any stand whatsoever are the insensitive ones.