END PROHIBITION; END THE CARTELS

I'm writing about the thoughtful PNJ editorial "Losing a costly 'war'
" (Sept. 20). The United States' drug prohibition policies are like a
broken sewer pipe that's not only flooding and stinking up our own
home, but our neighbors' homes as well.

The solution is not to use more mops and buckets of law enforcement,
but rather to fix the broken sewer pipe of drug prohibition. Law
enforcement didn't get rid of the alcohol cartels. Ending alcohol
prohibition got rid of the alcohol cartels and the violence and
corruption that went with them.

Kirk Muse

Mesa, Ariz.