END PHONY DRUG WAR

Editor: We lost the war on illegal alcohol. Now we are losing the phony
war on drugs. Should we legalize drugs?

Drug enforcement people and drug pushers would be unemployed. Even
paying the unemployment and retraining costs, Congress would be faced
with major budget surpluses.Jails will tend to be empty. Media would
have to find news to replace drug-related bad news and robberies would
be to get money for professional sporting events, not to get money for
drugs.

If Congress doesn't give control to the oil industry, drug prices
should drop and, as a young woman said to me, "legal drugs may be less
attractive."

Look at the drug money that is being thrown at the California fight to
legalize marijuana. Are we really that powerless? Write your senators
and congressman.

Legalizing drugs will make America safer.

Mike Langan

Stroud Township