INSANE PROFITS

To The Editor: The reason kids can buy drugs so easily is because of the
insane profits that can be made due to their prohibition. Prohibition
didn't work on alcohol and it doesn't work with drugs. All it does is
create a $400 billion dollar underground industry and make the profits on
illegal drugs so high that drug trafficking has an irresistible allure.

If we want to cut drug use, we need to bring drugs within the law, regulate
them and control them. Over 60 years of the drug war has proven that
government prohibition doesn't work. The drug war eats up over $40 billion
a year of our tax dollars. It's time to end the misguided anti-drug ads,
and it's time to begin real dialogue on how to reduce the harm to our
children and their families.

Donna Davis, Edmond