The extremely expensive steroid testing program in Texas high schools succeeded in catching not a single steroid using teenager, but two steroid users this year. It costs them $3 million to do this, but some feel it is worth it. But others strongly disagree with the high cost of the latest iteration of the war on drugs (”$3 Million in Student Steroid Testing Catches Two Kids,”  July 2)

Texas taxpayers are learning one more way that they’re paying for the war on drugs: by spending $3 million dollars on steroid testing that only found 2 positive tests. That’s two tests out of 10,000 kids tested, indicating that the $3 million was spent on a drug that was being used by about 2 hundredths of one percent of the student population that was tested.

That’s one way to blow $3 million, I suppose.

$1,500,000 to catch a single steroid user…?!