DRUG PROHIBITION KILLS THE INNOCENT

Regarding the article on Thursday, "Arizona Attorney General Tom Horne:
Mexican cartels an 'escalating threat' to U.S.": Speaking as a retired
detective who fought in the trenches of the drug war, I know that this
modern drug prohibition has been a spectacular, trillion-dollar failed
public policy. We certainly know from our experience in 1933 that, to
destroy the Mexican cartels, we simply need to repeal drug prohibition.

Horne's call for a "massive new education campaign to teach drug users
about the cartels" is a solution? You have to be kidding me. That was
tried after 9/11 and was a colossal failure. Drug users know full well
that it is prohibition that causes money to flow to Osama bin Laden. I
challenge Horne to put pen to paper and tell us all the advantages and
positive outcomes of drug prohibition. Something that says the disaster
and suffering of Mexico is worthwhile.

Howard Wooldridge

Tucson