WAR ON DRUGS IS FUTILE

Re: "Colombian spraying hurts more than it helps," by Colleen Minter
McCool, July 19.

I am a native Dallasite whose father and family are
Colombian.

U.S. insistence on maintaining criminal prohibition laws against
cocaine guarantees multibillion-dollar funding for the Colombian drug
cartels, which use their profits to fund huge networks of criminal
drug dealers across North America.

As Ms. McCool notes, dumping poisonous herbicides on Colombian farms
not only fails to slow coca production, it does nothing to help reduce
cocaine addiction and abuse among Americans.

It's time to disempower the drug cartels and end the unwinnable war on
drugs, for the sake of Americans and Colombians alike.

Amy L. Saldarriaga, Plano