FOCUS ON EDUCATION; END THE WAR ON DRUGS

The letter written by the prisoner at the Dixon
Correctional Center on July 7 titled =93Solve
problems with education, not incarceration=94 is
correct that we need to be investing in education and not prisons.

Prohibition is the root of many nonviolent
offenders serving time in prison, and until
America learns the lesson of the noble
experiment, we will continue to cage humans who
choose to use certain substances while allowing
alcohol companies to advertise along our highways.

While drug abuse is bad, the war on drugs is much
worse. There are victims of no-knock raids,
including family pets shot and killed. At the
same time, younger people have easier access to
these dangerous substances because they are sold
by criminals who have no reason to ask for an ID to check age.

America needs to restore liberty by ending Nixon's failed war on drugs.

Note to readers =AD Dan Linn is the executive
director of the Illinois National Organization to Reform Marijuana Laws.