JUST PR GESTURES

Editor:

Re: Drugs as weapons

Correct me if I am wrong, but if someone slips something harmful into
another person's drink and then rapes them when they are incapacitated,
wouldn't that be a crime, or multiple crimes, whether the substance itself
was classed as a weapon or not?

Alcohol would be the best example, because that accounts for far more
sexual assaults than all the other drugs combined. It seems to me that you
don't need a new law to address this situation - just adequate enforcement
of the existing laws.

You got it right when you said that these laws are just PR gestures that
will make no real difference.

Clifford Schaffer, Director, DRCNet Online Library of Drug Policy, Agua
Dulce, California