END PROHIBITION How ironic it is that "throwing money at problems" was a charge against liberals in years past, yet that is now the preferred method of the anti-marijuana community. We spend billions annually on prohibition. a better name than "War On Drugs." It conjures up that failed experiment of the 1920s, in which most of our parents or grandparents also broke the law. U.S. Attorney Jay McCloskey's argument contained the following fact: cigarettes, alcohol and prescriptions: 700,000 dead; marijuana, cocaine and heroin: 5,000 dead. He claims cigarettes, alcohol and marijuana are gateway drugs, but indications are that cigarettes and alcohol always precede marijuana. Decriminalizing these substances is the best of a bad bunch of tactics, of which the current course is the worst. It is the profit motive which drives the criminal element, and the cost which turns addicts into thieves. I don't advocate escape from reality by drug use, but the truth is: law enforcement has been given an unwinnable assignment. We're about to begin defoliating Colombia. What kinds of international incidents will follow?
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