I read with interest the story of Burnaby residents coming together
out of concern over the growing problem of drug pushers in their
neighbourhoods.

May I offer a suggestion as to an easy way to rid yourselves of the
pusher problem? Decriminalize and regulate drugs. The pushers will be
out of business overnight.

It's really so simple, yet so very impossible.

Here in the U.S. the only thing that would keep it from happening is
that it would also end the multi-billion-dollar war on drugs - that
favorite cash-cow of nearly every government agency.

R.L. Root,
Westminster, Calif.