LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Student should not face charges

I oppose criminal charges against the 16-year-old Rio Rancho High School student who (allegedly) urinated in the La Cueva students' water jug without their knowledge or consent. Instead of criminal charges, require him to write a letter of apology and to do community service.

I have drunk my urine for health almost every day since Nov. 10, 1999, over 25 years.

Three books I recommend on the many health benefits of urine therapy are "Golden Fountain: The Complete Guide to Urine Therapy" by Coen Van Der Kroon of the Netherlands; "Urine Therapy" by Flora Peschek-Bohmer, Ph.D., and Gisella Schreiber of Germany; and "The Water of Life" by John W. Armstrong of England.

Before birth, in our mother's womb we drank our urine because the amniotic fluid is largely the baby's urine. Shipwrecked persons with no access to fresh water have survived by drinking their urine.

Our urine is our unique, free living medicine containing hundreds of vitamins, minerals, enzymes and hormones. ...

For at least 9,000 years in Mexico, 5,000 years in India, millions have drunk their urine for health.

Don Schrader

Albuquerque