News (Media Awareness Project) - US: PUB LTE: Prohibition Is Immoral |
Title: | US: PUB LTE: Prohibition Is Immoral |
Published On: | 1998-06-24 |
Source: | Wall Street Journal (US) |
Fetched On: | 2008-09-07 07:29:19 |
PROHIBITION IS IMMORAL
Do you really believe that all drug use constitutes abuse, and that
the government should make such personal decisions for us? Do you
advocate prohibiting alcohol again, since it kills more than 40,000
people a year, and is more addictive than heroin, crack, cocaine,
caffeine, PCP, marijuana, Ecstasy [MDMA], psilocybin mushrooms, LSD
and mescaline?
Do you advocate the illegalization of nicotine, which kills more than
400,000 Americans a year and is more addictive than all of the
aforementioned drugs? Even though more prohibition would bring more
crime, as did alcohol prohibition, and as does the current drug
prohibition?
Every troubled individual is worth saving, and medical care should
always be available.
But it is not worth destroying our society in a futile effort to save
people from themselves.
Lynn Carol
San Diego
Do you really believe that all drug use constitutes abuse, and that
the government should make such personal decisions for us? Do you
advocate prohibiting alcohol again, since it kills more than 40,000
people a year, and is more addictive than heroin, crack, cocaine,
caffeine, PCP, marijuana, Ecstasy [MDMA], psilocybin mushrooms, LSD
and mescaline?
Do you advocate the illegalization of nicotine, which kills more than
400,000 Americans a year and is more addictive than all of the
aforementioned drugs? Even though more prohibition would bring more
crime, as did alcohol prohibition, and as does the current drug
prohibition?
Every troubled individual is worth saving, and medical care should
always be available.
But it is not worth destroying our society in a futile effort to save
people from themselves.
Lynn Carol
San Diego
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