LIVING IN THE PAST

As a retired police detective, I learned that modern prohibition
generates 70-80 percent of all felony crime in Texas. My profession
has spent a trillion tax dollars since 1971 to arrest 38 million on
drug charges. For all that, drugs are cheaper, stronger and easier for
teens to buy.

Pauken wants to return to the '80s. Even then, teens died selling
drugs, terrorists earned billions in the drug trade and Texas built
dozens of prisons -- and one new college.

Howard J. Wooldridge, Dallas