DRUG WAR IS ONLY CAUSING MORE HARM

I have a suggestion for a recent letter writer here: Before he comes up with
too many plans to fight illegal drugs, he should read the major studies on
the subject.

He can find the full text of nearly every major government commission report
on the drug laws in the last 100 years at
http://www.druglibrary.org/schaffer. The collection includes the largest
studies ever done by the governments of the United States, the United
Kingdom, Canada and Australia, just to mention a few.

The first thing he will find is that all the major commissions concluded
that drug prohibition is a lost cause -- just like alcohol prohibition --
and should have been repealed long ago because it does more harm than good.

Clifford Schaffer,

Agua Dulce, Calif.