SOLUTION: REPEAL ALL DRUG LAWS

Dear Editor:
If the harms to the people of Johnson County are as horrible as suggested
by the And What About The Children piece, then I would strongly suggest the
only viable solution to "the problem" of illicit Meth labs. Libertarian
Milton Friedman has made the case to repeal all drug prohibition laws
permitting all drugs to be available in the free-market.

The profit motive to produce Meth on the home stove top would be gone
absent prohibition. Pharmaceutical companies could safely produce Meth for
pennies apiece. The purity would be assured and a quality control system
open to inspection similar to distilleries and other pharmaceutical
manufacturing would be the result.

There is a lot of information on the internet. The Germans handed out Meth
as a performance enhancers in battle and psychiatrists once handed Meth out
like candies. No one suffered all the evils present in Johnson County when
ever there was a legal source. In fact all the evils in Johnson County can
be directly attributed to prohibition and not Meth. When unsafe liquor
stills were blowing up all over the countryside and the Volstead Act was
law, the American people were smart enough to understand those incidents
happened because of prohibition. Why can't American understand the
correlated evils of prohibition no matter what the substance?

Let me close by reminding Americans that the notion that government can
some how protect children from substances would startle Thomas Jefferson
not to mention Aristotle. Parents protect the children, they have since
time began and they will until time ends.

Chris Buors
Winnipeg Manitoba