DRUG WAR FAILURE

The recent arrests of American Airlines employees, Sky Chef caterers and law
enforcement officers working part-time at the Miami airport only add to the
evidence that the driving force in drug trafficking is money, and people are
more than willing to take risks to get their share.

As long as there is an opportunity to make easy money by smuggling drugs,
the war on drugs is doomed to failure and will only exist as a jobs program
for bureaucrats and politicians who depend on the "war" for their careers.

It is long past time to discuss ways drugs can be legally supplied through
controlled outlets combined with treatment and education. There are
alternatives.

JOSEPH WINTZ, Dallas