ANSWER TO DRUG PROBLEM IS IN D.C., NOT IN LOCAL COMMUNITIES

I'm writing about Susan Bobby's outstanding Feb. 24 letter: "Spend
anti-drug dollars on prevention, treatment."

Unfortunately, the commonsense solution to Munster's drug and crime
problems lie in Washington, D.C. -- not Munster or any other city or
town in the United States.

Since the vast majority of all of our violent crime and property
crime are caused not by drugs but rather our drug prohibition
policies, the commonsense solution is to re-legalize all of our now
illegal drugs.

Then the drugs can be sold in legal, regulated and licensed business
establishments.

Then drug dealers as we know them today will disappear for economic
reasons. Our so-called "drug-related crime" will be in our past --
not our future.

Our government cannot protect adult citizens from themselves, and our
government has no right to attempt to do so.

Kirk Muse

Mesa, Ariz.