MAJOR KUDOS TO DR. JAY DAVIS

Major kudos to Dr. Jay Davis for his outstanding letter: "RUSH THE
JUNKIE DESERVES BETTER TREATMENT THAN HE'D ALLOW OTHERS" (10-21-03).
I'd like to add that when all types of recreational drugs were legally
available in local pharmacies for pennies per dose, the term
"drug-related crime" didn't exist.

Neither did drug lords or drug cartels. These were all created by our
drug criminalization policies--not the drugs.

When all types of recreational drugs were legally available in local
pharmacies for pennies per dose, drug users and drug addicts were
essentially indistinguishable from non-drug users except for the fact
that they used drugs. Just as tobacco users today are
indistinguishable from non-tobacco users except for the fact that they
use tobacco.

Truth be told, we have a long list of famous and productive citizens
who have been addicted to drugs. If all of these people had wound up
in prison, the U. S. would be a lesser nation as a result.

We are now, a lesser nation because of the people who are in prison,
who shouldn't be there.

Kirk Muse

Mesa, AZ