DRUGS AIN'T AS BAD AS YOU THINK

Dear Editor:

Mike Ryan is either an idiot or his conflict of interest is so great
that he is unable to see how unethical he is in his anti-drug crusade.

It is stated that, 90 per cent of robberies are "drug related". This
should read "prohibition" related. The only reason people described as
addicts commit crimes, is to feed the black market.

When Bayer Heroin sold for about the same price as Bayer Aspirin the
term "drug-related crime" did not exist. It seems that the most rabid
prohibitionists are those that, like Mike, were unable to use drugs
or alcohol in a responsible manner.

Rather than admitting to themselves that they might have some personal
shortcoming or character flaw, it is easier to image that everyone
else is "just like me". The fact is when all drugs were legal we had
about the same percentage of "addicts" as we do today.

David Lane