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Editor, The NEWS:

The reason your town core is not safe, pleasant to walk in and an
embarrassment to your community is not due to drug use; the reason is
due to the prohibition of drugs, which even includes the plant cannabis.

If the original prohibition on a national scale were to have gone
unchecked when it was, it would have escalated to mind boggling
proportions. Now the sequel, on an international scale, unchecked for
2-4 times as long, has brought us a bigger Al Capone known as Osama
bin Laden. Murders, thefts, etc. all decreased for years after the end
of the original prohibition.

Government-subsidized drug warlords want you to think ending
prohibition will increase crime. History suggests otherwise.

Stan White

Dillon, Colorado