DRUG WAR CAN BE WON BY ENDING PROHIBITION

Editor, the Gazette:

As a retired Michigan police officer who fought in the trenches of the
drug war, I understand the citizen wanting to give up on my
profession. He sees a drug house and no police busting it.

Please understand the problem is not the police. We are working hard
every day and we have busted thousands of drug houses. The policy of
drug war/prohibition is the root problem. There is so much money to be
made, a new drug house pops up as fast as we close one. Ending drug
prohibition would eliminate every drug house in Ohio. That is the only
proven solution to drug houses.

Howard Wooldridge

Frederick, Md.