WAR ON DRUGS ISN'T WORKING VERY WELL AT ALL

Dr. Phil McGraw is famous for his line, "And how's that working for you?" -
a question that invariably brings out the truth that the individual has
been engaging in a totally unproductive and usually harmful behavior in a
vain attempt to solve some personal problem. On Sunday night, I heard
Howard Wooldridge, a retired police officer, ask an audience the same
question about the "War on Drugs."

Wooldridge is riding his horse, Misty, across the country to help people
understand that we need to try something else, because the criminalization
of drugs isn't working for us. He is a member of Law Enforcement Against
Prohibition (LEAP), which is made up of current and former members of law
enforcement who support drug regulation rather than prohibition.

Wooldridge made a lot of sense when he pointed out, among a host of other
evidence, that drugs have become cheaper, more available and more potent
than they were in 1970. Prohibition of alcohol did not work in the 1920s,
and the war on drugs (really a war on people) isn't working for us now.

Visit the LEAP Web site at www.leap.cc, and draw your own conclusion.

How's the war on drugs working for us? Shouldn't we try something new?

Caroline Cook

Medina