A PROHIBITION-CAUSED PROBLEM

Re "Marijuana's biggest problem" (Speak Out, Oct. 21):

No doubt you have lots of "drug-related crime." Actually it's drug
prohibition-caused crime. When is the last time you had a story about
a liquor dealer shooting his liquor distributor? Probably about 1933,
the year the government ended the disaster known as alcohol
prohibition.

Our counterproductive drug-prohibition police give marijuana users,
sellers and distributors no legal recourse to settle their disputes
with each other, so they resort to violence, just as alcohol users,
sellers and distributors did when alcohol was illegal.

Kirk Muse

Mesa, Ariz.