DRUG CULTURE HAS POISONED SOCIETY

THE case for the legalisation of dangerous drugs is not only fatuous but
wicked (Comment, last week). The fact that serving police officers now
subscribe to the ethos through defeatism or a misguided belief that it
would take the profit out of drug abuse adds no validity to the argument.
On the contrary, it means that the subversive propagandists have
infiltrated what was perhaps the last bastion of common sense in our
confused society.

As a frontline detective engaged in the attempt to suppress vice and
drugs-related crime in London from the 1950s to the 1980s I watched the
insidious destruction of my force. The vice and illicit drugs industry
exploited the disgraceful susceptibility of the small but powerful minority
among us.

The sole purpose of the rave club owners is to profit from the drugs
culture. What is needed is more regulation of the rave clubs where bouncers
ostentatiously frisk the punters while clubs provide''chill out''
facilities inside.

Frank Pulley
Ickenham, Middlesex