PROHIBITION A PROVEN FAILURE -- WHY DO WE INSIST ON IT?

We have proven prohibition doesn't work and repealed it. Should this have
not taught us something? Drug profits finance terrorists and dictators
around the world. Bootleggers during Prohibition profited as drug dealers
do these days. Also gang wars and crime flourished due to that
unenforceable law. This is true these days, too, with hard drugs. Why can't
we learn that we cannot legislate people's behavior as to how they behave
regarding their health?

Making drug possession and use illegal is going through the same exercise
as before with alcohol. If it is workable, why not make tobacco use
illegal? Are we stupid just naturally, or on purpose?

Making drugs legal would do what making alcohol legal did. It would take
the profit out of the trade for the criminals, eliminate drug pushers'
incentives and enable us to collect taxes on drug sales as we do on liquor
sales and tobacco sales. Not to mention enable us to gain control of the
trade and to at the same time reduce crime.

It's time we came to our senses on control of hard drugs and cause their
usage to add to tax receipts rather than be a huge drain on public funds.

Joe Switzer,

Franklin