LEGALIZED DRUGS LIGHT THE WAY

THREE CHEERS for Bill Fried's impassioned yet well-reasoned call to
end drug prohibition. In addition to the benefits of legalization that
he mentions, consider these:

Fall in drugs' potency as sellers lose the incentive to stuff maximum
narcotic power into small, easily hidden packages;

Fewer sting operations, as police will no longer be charged with
uncovering activities that, unlike robbery and murder, produce no
complaining victims;

A freer society in which presumptuous busybodies are obliged to mind
their own business.

DONALD J. BOUDREAUX, Fairfax, Va.

The writer is chairman of the department of economics at George Mason
University.