LEGALIZE DRUGS TO FIGHT CRIME

Dear Editor,

Thanks for publishing retired police officer Howard J. Wooldridge's
outstanding letter: "Legalize drugs to combat gang violence"
(11-30-2007).

Of course, many drug war cheerleaders will proclaim that re-legalizing
all self-medicating and recreational drugs would be giving in to the
drug dealers and drug cartels.

When we in the U.S. re-legalized alcohol in 1933, did we give in to
the alcohol cartels? No. We put them out of business.

KIRK MUSE