AMERICAN FEELS LOST

To the editor:

I'm writing about David George's thoughtful letter ("American offers
us drug advice," Jan. 9). I'd like to add that when pure
pharmaceutical-grade Bayer heroin was legally sold in local pharmacies
for about the same price as Bayer Aspirin, the term "drug-related
crime" didn't exist. Neither did drug lords or even drug dealers as we
know them today.

And deaths from recreational drugs were rare. That's because the drugs
were of known quality, known purity and known potency-the opposite of
today's black market drugs.

I also have some good advice. Carefully observe U. S. drug policy-then
do the opposite. Don't follow us-we're lost.

KIRK MUSE

Mesa, AZ