NEED TO GET REAL ABOUT DRUG WAR

Editor:

In regard to the editorial (April 9) titled, "Rubbing Out Drug Element," I
would really like to know if the author was trying to convince others or
perhaps maybe even himself that the drug bust in Greenville had an effect
on drug use?

I can tell you now, it had absolutely zero effect.

People have eaten, drank, smoked, injected and rubbed onto them various
forms of mind-altering substances since the beginning of time.

This is human nature and it will continue until the end of time.
Prohibition will not stop people from doing what they want to do just
because something is currently against the law.

The War On Drugs is a complete failure with billions of dollars flushed
down the toilet and still counting. That is so very much money that could
have been spent on education, health care, abused family shelters or
hundreds of other well-deserving programs.

Our hard earned taxed-to-death paychecks are what supports the War On Drugs
and I am just one of millions who is sick to death of the lies our
government keeps shoving down our throats. You are being ripped completely off.

So while some of you are filling your lungs with "civic pride" because you
think you are "rubbing out the drug element" you are breathing in foul air.

Instead, why not try to reform our drug laws? Try to compare the cost of
rehabilitation as opposed to prison. I think you will be quite shocked at
the difference of these costs, which is just one more thing you and I pay for.

Anita T. Mayfield,

Nettleton