TIME TO END PROHIBITION FOR DRUGS?

To the Editor:

Thanks to Nicholas D. Kristof for saying again what so many have said
for years about the war on drugs. Given the evidence that the war on
drugs is a futile, tragic disaster, one can only paraphrase what
Winston Churchill said about democracy: Decriminalization of drugs is
the worst idea, except for all the others.

Lawrence Shainberg

Truro, Mass.