NO BRAINER

Re: "Legalize drugs" (letters, Oct. 7).

The letter writer was right on target. Let me add some fuel. Allowing
pharmaceutical companies to manufacture drugs would be safer, cheaper
and save lives. Legal drugs would eliminate the need to commit crimes
to acquire drug money, create thousands of new jobs and raise
millions in new tax revenue.

The crime rate would drop, creating jail capacity for real criminals.
Police would have more time to pursue real criminals and drug lords
who addict our children to drugs would be gone.

More than 100 years ago, the United States had no drug restrictions
and very little drug-related problems. As the letter writer pointed
out, alcohol prohibition created enormous criminal activity that
disappeared when alcohol was legalized again.

Drug legalization strikes me as a no-brainer.

ANTHONY V. PERRELLA

Haddonfield