NO USE FIGHTING HUMAN NATURE

I, too, am livid over the way we treat people over drugs. Our so-called war
on drugs has been a dismal failure and will never be won because it is
going against human nature.

All through history a certain percentage of folks have taken to using some
sort of escape, and only when we made that illegal in the early 20th
century did we start to bring the criminal element into it. I don't use
drugs and certainly don't advocate it, but I live and work in an area where
there is horrible crime, and virtually all of it is directly related to
drug traffic.

I say drug "traffic" and not drug "use"; if drugs were legal, you could get
them at a store or pharmacy like all the other legal drugs, and people
wouldn't be killing themselves and others over getting them.

We are being totally hypocritical and come off as fools. Future generations
will wonder how we could be so uncivilized at such a late date in our
development.

Sterling Voth

Baton Rouge, La.