STUDENTS NEED TO EXAMINE THE HISTORY OF ALCOHOL PROHIBITION

It sounds like the students who want to "get rid of drug users" have
been through a DARE program.

Too bad DARE refuses to inform students about the damage done by
their lunatic drug prohibition policy.

To wit: There was no such thing as "drug crime" until after America's
drug crusaders outlawed drugs.

When addicts could buy all of the morphine, heroin, cocaine and
anything else they wanted cheaply and legally at the corner pharmacy,
no one was robbing, whoring and murdering over drugs. There were no
drug gangs, no criminal drug cartels and no such thing as "drug crime."

All of these things are a direct result of drug prohibition, not drug use.

If these students want to know the true results of prohibition
policies, they need to examine the history of Alcohol Prohibition.

It's worth learning that Eliot Ness never put the bootleggers out of business.

It's worth learning that repeal and a regulated market for adult
alcohol use ended the reign of the booze barons in a few days.

It's worth learning that we haven't had a bombing or a shoot out over
a beer route since 1933.

Ralph Givens
Daly City, CA