PROHIBITION?

Re "Bills would lessen penalties for marijuana" (Monitor Local & State
page, Jan. 23):

In your story on HB 1623, relative to reducing penalties for
possession of small quantities of marijuana, you state that: "Peter
Morency, president of the New Hampshire Association of Chiefs of
Police, described the issue in terms of crime, pointing to the high
levels of crime that he said were drug-and-alcohol related."

In the very same testimony, Mr. Morency was asked if he would
re-institute alcohol prohibition. In reply, he said he "certainly
would consider it."

Don't take my word for it; see the video yourself at
nhliberty.org/2007/hb1623. It's 2 minutes 37 seconds in.

Denis Goddard

Concord

(The writer is director of research for the New Hampshire Liberty
Alliance.)