PROHIBITION IS PROBLEM

Where were you when Noelle Bush got busted for drugs? And would you feel
the same way about this situation if one of the lost souls mentioned in the
Sept. 13 editorial were one of your children? Probably not. Jeb Bush didn't.

You need to check the facts. First of all, what ruins neighborhoods is the
black market that prohibition created, not the drugs. Second, every study
that has ever been done shows the same end results. Dollar for dollar,
treatment is cheaper and works better than incarceration. Third, if these
poor lost souls are convicted and go to prison rather than receive
treatment, we all lose. Prisons teach prisoners one thing: how to be better
criminals.

RICK L. MEREDITH, Wesley Chapel