DRUG BUSINESS IS DIZZYING

Re: March 1 World Digest item "2007 opium production sets record
(http://www.statesman.com/search/content/news/stories/world/03/01/0301world.html)."

I recently wrote a letter to the editor about legalizing drugs, and I
received a lot of heated e-mails in response.

My opinion was that drugs should not be legalized. Now I have to ask
myself, "Why not go ahead and make it legal and reap the benefits?"

Afghan farmers grew 93 percent of the world's opium, and the profits
supply the Taliban with money and weapons.

It just blows me away that our government will send our military to
protect Afghanistan, while at the same time Afghan farmers grow opium
that is sold in the United States. The money makes it back to our
enemy so we can continue to fight it.

This running around in a circle is making me dizzy.

Pyatt Cook

Pflugerville