FAILED WAR

I am writing in response to the Oct. 8 article, "Facing the music.''

The true message in this article is that the government's insane "war on
drugs'' has created an opportunity for all people wanting out of poverty or
with ambition to take the most profitable route to where they want to go.
Laws, punishment, preaching values, etc., won't stop this from happening.

The "Drug War'' has created problems where no problems or at least
minuscule problems existed before. Prohibition did the same. Will we never
learn?

Most of these people, like the young man in the article, would never become
criminals if this market did not exist.

Let's legalize drugs now and reap the rewards such as less police
corruption, reduced prison population and reduced court cases, fewer police
required, less property forfeiture, less invasion of privacy, less loss of
freedoms, money to rehabilitate drug addicts and more.

CARL JOHNSON
Dale