MONEY INTERESTS KEEP FUTILE WAR ON DRUGS ALIVE

New Mexico Gov. Gary Johnson is right about making drugs legal. We have
spent billions trying to eliminate these substances with no success. Now
many people would like to add tobacco to the list. I don't expect drugs to
be legalized and controlled, not because it doesn't make sense, but because
the present system has produced a bureaucracy dependent on drugs to exist.

I also don't believe most antismoking organizations would want people to
quit smoking, nor antialcohol organizations want people to quit drinking
Their purpose and financial benefit depends on the continuation of these
activities.

Health might have been the initial purpose for laws and their enforcement.
I think this reason has long since been discarded for a new purpose which
is money.

Ernest Melby
Roseville