TIDE TURNING ON ILLEGAL DRUGS

You state that if drugs are re-legalized and regulated anytime soon,
it'd be a surprise.

You may be correct, but I believe the tide has turned and more people
are beginning to realize prohibition and the resulting black markets
are a much greater detriment to society than drugs themselves.

My hope is that by the time my five-year-old is in high school that
the drug dealers will be gone.

I may be overly optimistic, but we need the media's help to counter
all the prohibitionist propaganda that is spewed by those with a
vested interest in maintaining the status quo (like the police and
prison industry), so thank you for publishing another of Kirk Muse's
excellent letters.

David Lane

Santa Cruz, Calif.

(The topic deserves debate.)