LEGAL DRUGS THE ANSWER

Re: "Treat the problem" (editorial, May 18).

Answers are indeed in short supply about how to deal with "career
criminals who steal from honest hardworking folks because the crooks
need to feed their drug habits."

That's because newspapers such as yours are extremely reluctant to
suggest what would be the most effective answer: ending drug
prohibition.

Legalizing drugs will reduce the costs of currently illegal drugs so
much that many more users will be able to finance their habit with
their own money, just as alcohol and tobacco users currently do,
rather than by stealing from others.

Alan Randell

Victoria