The Chronicle's Dec. 30 editorial ("Anti-drug force") said illegal
drugs are "destroying a generation of young American users, while
corrupting law enforcement and politicians in Latin America countries
from Mexico to Colombia."

I have devoted most of my life to studying drugs and you're wrong.
Drug prohibition causes corruption -- the drugs themselves are
incapable of it.

Corruption caused by drug prohibition occurs all over the world, and
is not confined to Latin America.

A rational drug policy, requiring all drugs to be regulated by
government agencies instead of allowing them to be manufactured and
peddled by criminals with little or no interest in the public's
welfare, would reduce the harm currently being caused by drugs and
would eliminate the harmful effects of drug prohibition.

G. Alan Robison executive director Drug Policy Forum of Texas
Houston