PROHIBITION IS IMMORAL

The utter futility of the war on drugs should be apparent to anyone
willing to honestly evaluate its history. In simple economic terms,
both the supply of and demand for illicit drugs have increased since
the start of the drug war, despite the billions of dollars and
thousands of lives wasted in its name so far. To think that an
escalation of the war on drugs will somehow eliminate drug abuse and
addiction is to miss the obvious lesson of the drug war: It is unwinnable.

W. Luke Vicens
North Andover, Mass.