DEATHS A CONSEQUENCE OF PROHIBITION

The tragedy of the two young girls in a coma or dead due to taking
unknown street drugs is yet another foreseeable, predictable
consequence of the prohibition on drugs. You doubt that statement?
Let us compare to the 'other' prohibition of last millennium:
alcohol. When alcohol was prohibited, gangsters made and sold liquor.
The physical harm alone caused by that liquor was extensive, because
it was made by amateurs in uncontrolled conditions. Prohibition did
not stop drinking, and its repeal did not entirely stop the harm
caused by alcohol. But the harm now is much less significant and far
more manageable than that caused by prohibition. Likewise, if ecstasy
was made by pharmaceutical companies with controlled sales, these
girls would not be dead. As a society, it is time for us to grow up
and admit that people will do what they want. The only gauge of an
approach is whether it leads to more harms or fewer to legalize it.
Therefore, prohibition must end.

Bruce Symington

(It's an abject reality some simply don't want to accept.)