WAR ON DRUGS USELESS, MUST END

Editor:

The awful murder of the four teens in Huntington is even more sickening
since it became apparent the event was drug-related. It is another sad
example of how the war on drugs has made us less safe.

While alcohol and drug abuse have basically the same side effects, they are
harmful only to the small population of users and their families. And these
problems can be countered with treatment and counseling.

Since alcohol is legal, it is cheap. And because there is no great profit
to be made selling whiskey, there are no violent gangs fighting over
whiskey territories. Meanwhile, the black market created by drug
prohibition enriches the criminals in our society, while the rest of us
live in fear.

Eradicating drug abuse is a laudable goal, but these murders show that
prohibition carries too high a price. End the War on Drugs.

Nate Orders

Charleston