PROHIBITION HAS FAILED AGAIN

Columnist George Will wrote of the daunting task the Los Angeles
Police Department has protecting the public from "the 60 or so gangs
that deal drugs to customers and death to each other" ("In rising tide
of chaos, police 'work the gangs' March 21).

I cannot read this without despair, both for this tragic situation and
for why more don't see this as Prohibition, Part Two. Though
prohibition was an abject failure the first time, with many of the
same horrible consequences (drive-by shootings, gang warfare,
government corruption, etc.), we continue the madness of the "war on
drugs."

Isn't it obvious that without the profit motive of the black-market
drug trade, all this would be history?

Steven Charles

Atlanta