News (Media Awareness Project) - US WA: PUB LTE: Legalizing Reduces Drug Use |
| Title: | US WA: PUB LTE: Legalizing Reduces Drug Use |
| Published On: | 2001-07-14 |
| Source: | Columbian, The (WA) |
| Fetched On: | 2008-01-25 14:02:45 |
LEGALIZING REDUCES DRUG USE
I appreciated the July 9 "Dear Ann Landers" column publishing Robert
Sharpe's outstanding letter in response to the letter from Donnie Marshall,
the outgoing Drug Enforcement Administration chief.
Our policy of drug prohibition has proven to be just as counterproductive
as alcohol prohibition. Illegal drug-buyers are buying drugs of unknown
quality, unknown potency and unknown purity. Ecstasy and other synthetic
drugs are not unlike the bathtub gin our grandfathers bought that resulted
in needless deaths and blindings.
KIRK MUSE
Vancouver, WA
I appreciated the July 9 "Dear Ann Landers" column publishing Robert
Sharpe's outstanding letter in response to the letter from Donnie Marshall,
the outgoing Drug Enforcement Administration chief.
Our policy of drug prohibition has proven to be just as counterproductive
as alcohol prohibition. Illegal drug-buyers are buying drugs of unknown
quality, unknown potency and unknown purity. Ecstasy and other synthetic
drugs are not unlike the bathtub gin our grandfathers bought that resulted
in needless deaths and blindings.
KIRK MUSE
Vancouver, WA
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