U.S. POLICY ON DRUGS HAS BIG REPERCUSSIONS ABROAD

It has been obvious for a long time that the collateral damage from
the war on drugs is far worse than anything the drugs themselves could
ever do. You're an idiot to use drugs for other than therapeutic
purposes (the same can be said for alcohol and tobacco, for which
there are no therapeutic purposes), but just as accountants are the
only real beneficiaries of our insane tax code, the mob is the only
real beneficiary of prohibition. Only when we have made these drugs
available as easily as alcohol and tobacco will we induce a
deflationary spiral in the drug trade. However, a lot of government
workers will also have to find something else to do.

James M. Nachbar, M.D.

Scottsdale, Ariz.