YOUR EDITORIAL IS NAIVE

Re: "Behind Those Red Ribbons -- Anti-drug message needs support
from all fronts," Wednesday Editorials.

The Dallas Mornings News editorial supporting President Bush's $1.4
billion request for fighting Mexican drug cartels is misguided and
naive.

History has shown that ever since its inception, the war on drugs has
utterly failed, succeeding only in rapidly filling prisons with drug
addicts.

Despite mainstream depictions, the illicit drug business is much more
complicated than a simple juxtaposition of good versus evil. The sums
of money involved make it so.

Rather than spend more money for a cause that yields zero results, we
should fund recovery programs that help sick people and legalize
marijuana, which, unlike alcohol, can't kill you by overdose.

Justin Finney, Austin