U.S. MUST LEGALIZE AND REGULATE DRUGS

Recently, while watching MSNBC-TV's Tucker Carlson, I was amazed at
retired Seattle Police Chief Norm Stampler indicating that drugs
should be legalized. This man was a policeman for 40-some years, and
like him, I would agree the war on drugs is never going to be won.
Decriminalizing drugs would in fact give the government more control
of the drugs and, therefore, keep them out of the black market's hands.

Tobacco and alcohol contribute to a lot of deaths, and they are
legal. While the black market controls drugs being sold on the
street, it makes it so much easier for kids to get them. If drugs
were legal and the government had a system like tobacco and alcohol,
you would have to be 21 to purchase drugs. Our prisons are
overcrowded, and for a land of the free, why are most of the
population behind bars for drugs?

Since President Nixon, there has been a war on drugs. Wake up America
- -- like Vietnam, it's a war being lost.

Don Smith

Huntington