News (Media Awareness Project) - US FL: PUB LTE: Drug Laws Create Criminal Class |
Title: | US FL: PUB LTE: Drug Laws Create Criminal Class |
Published On: | 2003-11-15 |
Source: | Florida Today (Melbourne, FL) |
Fetched On: | 2008-01-19 05:51:34 |
DRUG LAWS CREATE CRIMINAL CLASS
As a retired police officer, I know that drug dealers accept, as a
condition of employment, risk of death and long prison terms.
A recent letter writer's idea that making Florida's prisons into
hellholes would deter criminals is naive.
Drug dealers only exist because of the prohibition on
narcotics.
Will we ever be as wise as our grandparents, who abandoned the
prohibition of alcohol, and end this failed and futile approach to
drugs?
Howard J. Wooldridge
Keller, Texas
As a retired police officer, I know that drug dealers accept, as a
condition of employment, risk of death and long prison terms.
A recent letter writer's idea that making Florida's prisons into
hellholes would deter criminals is naive.
Drug dealers only exist because of the prohibition on
narcotics.
Will we ever be as wise as our grandparents, who abandoned the
prohibition of alcohol, and end this failed and futile approach to
drugs?
Howard J. Wooldridge
Keller, Texas
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