LOSING THE DRUG WAR In light of the recent incident when the SWAT team accidently shot and killed an 11-year-old boy during an alleged drug bust, this country should wake up and realize that the so-called "war on drugs" was lost even before it started because of the profit, the need and the use. We need to take the profit out of illegal drugs. The hundreds of millions of dollars that is spent on law enforcement has failed miserably. The United States should legalize all drugs and place them in controlled clinics. We should save millions of dollars and lives, plus drastically reduce our prison population. I worked for more than 30 years for state and county mental health agencies, which entailed a great deal of hands-on experience concerning illicit drug usage. We certainly have short memories. What folly was alcohol prohibition, and now illegal drugs are reaping the same results. ALLAN BOWLIN Modesto, Sept. 29
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