REHABILITATION BEST WAY TO END DRUG USE

The letter "Drug dealers must be dealt swift justice" stated that "the
deterrent for dealing drugs should be death." I would like to think that
America is aware of two of its biggest "drug" addictions: cigarettes and
alcohol. So, obviously, we must start the killing with the big drug
conglomerates such as Philip Morris and Seagram's. After all, these
companies are drug dealers as well.

A drug can be any controlled substance that is addictive. Should these
white-collar drug dealers not be persecuted as well, or do all of these
problems have to continually lie on the shoulders of street drug dealers?
The root of violent crimes lies with drug use, all drug use. The deterrent
for dealing and using drugs isn't death, but more effective rehabilitation
- - and not in the form of incarceration.

TRINICE HARMON

Leath Correctional Institution

Greenwood