COUNTER-PRODUCTIVE WAR ON DRUGS

I'm writing about John P. Gamboa's outstanding column: "The
Taliban-poppy alliance can be stopped" which ran last Thursday. Will
the next terrorist attack against the United States involve nuclear
weapons bought and paid for by our drug prohibition policies?

Alcohol prohibition was not terminated because it was decided that
alcohol was not so bad after all, but rather because of the crime and
corruption that its prohibition caused.

Now is the time to terminate our counter-productive so-called war on
drugs. Not because some of the drugs are not dangerous - many drugs
are very dangerous - but because of the crime and corruption drug
prohibition is causing and because our drug prohibition policies are
financing international terrorists.

Will it take a nuclear attack on American cities for the American
people and politicians to finally conclude that our drug prohibition
policies are counter-productive?

Kirk Muse

Mesa, Ariz.