WHAT'S NEXT? ROBBERY TRIALS?

THE pleading of a prisoner for heroin trials (Letters, 23/5) is
nothing more than an expression of his own desire for free and easy
drugs when he is released.

This dangerous proposal will neither free him nor anyone else of their
addictions. In the meantime, the underground drug trade will be
recruiting more and more people like him to be turned into more and
more addicts at ever-increasing cost to the public.

Nasty diseases require the nastiest medicine and, in this case, the
only cure is to rid the streets of this insidious drug and that means
to eliminate by execution all those who peddle in this substance of
death.

If heroin trials go through we will open the floodgates to similar,
trials in other forms of social misdemeanor. Who knows what next -
alcohol trials, robbery trials, rape trials, murder trials? How much
crazier can it get?

JEFF BUTLER