LETTER OF THE WEEK

HOPELESSNESS IN MEXICO'S DRUG WAR

By Gene Fellner

Regarding the Dec. 27 front-page article "Mexico questions its drug strategy":

The United States has survived the violence of its war on drugs, but
Mexico might not. This sad situation illustrates something that
nearly everyone except the folks in the U.S. government has known
since Prohibition turned our streets into battlegrounds: The
second-order effects of criminalizing drugs cause more harm than the
drugs themselves.

Gene Fellner, Derwood

Pubdate: Wed, 30 Dec 2009

Source: Washington Post (DC)

Referenced: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v09/n1155/a05.html