NATION'S DRUG WAR HAS A SEPARATE ECONOMY

Mike Plylar speaks the truth in his letter "Not really fighting drugs"
(July 11th) - Kudos to The Tampa Tribune for publishing it.

Maybe the politicians are required to adhere to the party line of
prohibition because law enforcement customs, the prison industrial
complex, the drug testing industry, the immigration and Naturalization
Service, the CIA the FBI the Drug Enforcement Administration and the
politicians themselves can't live without the budget justification,
not to mention the invisible profits, bribery, corruption and
forfeiture benefits that prohibition affords them.

The drug war also promotes, justifies and perpetuates racist
enforcement policies and is diminishing many freedoms and liberties
that are supposed to be inalienable, according to the Constitution and
the Bill of Rights.

Myron Von Hollingsworth, Fort Worth, Texas