PROHIBITION IS IMMORAL

For you to place drug use in the same category as pedophilia and child
prostitution is simply dishonest.

These are clearly crimes, with non-consenting (by virtue of their age)
victims.

Drug use by consenting adults does not constitute a crime, unless the
person or property of a non-consenting other is harmed as a result, in
which case the user should be held accountable for that harm. Drinking
of the legal drug alcohol even to the point of intoxication is not a
crime.

Drinking and driving is a crime because it directly endangers others
through impaired ability to operate a motor car amongst other drivers.

You also suggest that "the future of the debate would profit if all
of these people stated publicly whether they themselves use any of
these drugs recreationally." I fail to see either the relevance of
this, or what business it is of anyone else. These are all highly
intelligent, successful people, and if in fact some of them had ever
used drugs, then all this would prove is that drug users aren't
necessarily the burned out junkies that America's 70-year war on drugs
propaganda machine has made them out to be.

Mark O'Kelley

Tucson, Ariz.