REDUCE DRUG MARKET

It is true that the homicide rate increased during prohibition and
then decreased after repeal. But that was in the 1930s; it was the
United States (or more specifically, a few cities in the U.S) and the
drug was alcohol, a widely used drug that was suddenly removed from the market.

Organized crime was already well established and readily moved in to
exploit the prohibition. However, to liken alcohol prohibition to the
current prohibition on drugs is misleading and only serves the narrow
interests of the pro-drug legalization crowd; it distracts us from
building a lasting solution.

Drug legalization would only be a Band-Aid on a gaping wound. A
long-lasting and humanitarian solution is to reduce the growing
market for illicit drugs.

Peter Drevniok,

Gatineau