LEGAL DRUGS? NONSENSE

Re: "If drugs were just legal," by Nigel Watt, Saturday Letters.

This laughable letter makes the simplistic argument that since drug
violence is caused by drugs' illegality, if we would use a little
thought and common sense, we would legalize all of them and therefore
rid ourselves of the violence and millions of tax dollars spent
curtailing drug-related crime and its related issues.

What about the health care burdens of rampant drug use? What about the
effects on families and teens who are already more susceptible to
trying new things? Overdoses? Car wrecks, shootings and assaults
caused by people who were high?

It's not too difficult to foresee the potentially disastrous effects
of legalizing drugs. It just takes a little thought and common sense.

Jared Ambra,

Cedar Hill