LEGALIZE DRUGS

Town Talk Managing Editor Ron Grant in his column last Sunday implies that
tougher police action is required for the drug interdiction problems of
South Alexandria. Such action is apparently already stern, and to make it
tougher seems of dubious value.

Needed in Alexandria and in the rest of the nation is to place the problem
on an economic basis by enforcing drug consumption in a manner similar to
that of alcohol. As reprehensible as it may seem, letting Philip Morris
market illegal drugs would not only instantly dry up this
multibillion-dollar black market, but it would also provide tax revenue for
the funding of economic incentives leading to the gainful employment of
endangered young black males presently engaged in activities leading to
their early deaths.

John Moser

Pineville