WOULD LEGALIZING DRUGS REALLY END THE VIOLENCE?

Re: How Mexico gets it wrong; defeating the drug cartels depends not
on soldiers in the
street and strong arm tactics, but on a more transparent, effective
rule of law, March
19

Like the United States' wars overseas, Mexico's drug violence exists
because individuals
and companies make enormous amounts of money from it.

Curiously, this op-ed page analysis by John Ackerman, editor-in-chief
of the Mexican Law Review, failed to mention the single underlying
cause of the violence: the inexhaustible illegal-drug market in the
United States.

Decriminalization of the illegal drugs would stop the traffic and the
violence.

Much easier than stopping America's insatiable appetite for
war.

Peter Davis, Villon Films, Vancouver