You can't legislate alcohol or drugs

THE FiREBOMBING of the Oakland woman who was attempting to keep
crime out of her neighborhood is an outrage. A very serious crime was
committed here, but not of the sort that the media would have you
swallow.

Read your history. Prohibition does not work. It did not work in the
1920s. It does not work today. It does not change human nature.
Prohibition provides an advantage to people willing to break the law.

Take another disapproved of act of sex between unmarried individuals.
What happens if you make this illegal? People will still have sex.
Criminal types will provide safe havens for unmarried people to have sex
In. If you attempt to prosecute these criminal types, there will be
violence.

The people willing to break the law in one area are usually more

willing to break the law in other ways, such as theft and violence. The
gangs of the 1920s and of today are directly caused by prohibition. If
drugs were legal, that Oakland woman would have never been fire bombed.

I don't believe that using drugs is good. I do believe that people have
the right to mess up their lives however they wish, as long as they are
not hurting others. Drug use itself hurts only the person using the
drugs. Making drugs illegal hurts many people by forcing drug users into
the criminal world.

How many of you would be a criminal if sex between unmarried people were
made a crime? Legislating morality does not work.

Kathryn Dillon

Alameda, CA