LETTER OF THE WEEK

DRUG PROHIBITION A FAILURE

By Jeff Robertson

The Rev. Howard Brown, who saw one son murdered and another shot in
the North Lawndale neighborhood, was quoted in the Sun-Times
(Lawndale's 'murder game, Aug. 3): "Drugs are out there and all
that. As long as there's that, there will be violence and killing.
It's a murder game."

He is absolutely right. As long as gangs continue their turf wars
over drugs, nothing will change. The prohibition of alcohol spawned
crime just as the prohibition of drugs does now. Fortunately, we had
the wisdom to put an end to alcohol prohibition. Until we allow the
government to regulate and tax drugs (in other words, to legalize
them and take the profit away from the gangs), we should not expect
an end to the "murder game."

Jeff Robertson, Orland Hills

Pubdate: Thu, 6 Aug 2009

Source: Chicago Sun-Times (IL)

Referenced: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v09/n000/a154.html