PROHIBITION IS IMMORAL

It is mind-boggling that you have the unmitigated gall to dismiss the
opinions of 500 acknowledged leaders such as Walter Cronkite, George
Shultz, and former U.N. Secretary-General Javier Perez de Cuellar.

How can any rational thinker analyze our drug policy and fail to
conclude that it is a monumental failure? We have more people in
prison than any industrialized nation. We've spent hundreds of
billions of dollars on the drug war. We've destroyed families and
lives and undermined Constitutional freedoms. We've made inner city
children, who should have been young business men, into drug dealers.
And what do we have to show for all this effort? Any child or adult
with a few dollars in his pocket can buy any illicit drug in existence
anywhere in the country.

Mark Greer

Porterville, Calif.