LEGAL DRUGS CURB KILLINGS

Mexico and the U.S. need to legalize drugs. These governments should
expand their roles in their existing drug businesses. Alcohol, a
dangerous drug, is a real money-maker for these bureaucrats. Hundreds
of billions in potential tax money is up for grabs, plus the billions
a year spent punishing those who select something other than the
sanctioned, legal drug. Are the thousands of murders this year in
Juarez worth continued enforced selective moral choice? How about the
18 policemen shot dead or beheaded in Acapulco and the U.S. consulate
family murdered recently? Or, 80,000 other drug-related murders?

Decriminalize drugs and bye-bye violent cartels continuing to enrich
themselves on the fact some people prefer cocaine over alcohol. Either
drug can kill you. Must another innocent soul be murdered due to
another's preferences in pursuit of happiness?

In the '20s, pot was legal. Alcohol was not. Cocaine was in Coca-Cola.
Not anymore. Politics. Federal empowerment of cartels wastes billions
of dollars only to continue to lay the groundwork for thousands more
executions by druglords.

Baffled, these governments continue policies of failed remedies and
continue to hope for new results. This is, remember, the definition of
insanity.

Eric Lafko

Nine Mile Falls