TAKE PROFIT OUT BY LEGALIZING DRUGS

I know of no certain way to destroy illegal drug traffic except to
take the profit out of it. If marijuana were sold at
government-licensed outlets (like liquor in the South), at a price
below that charged by drug pushers, the pushers would vanish and might
even need to find honest work.

Persons buying marijuana through an approved outlet can be contacted
by authorities to see if they want help in kicking their habit. Drug
traffickers have no interest whatever in rehabilitating their clients.

Should the government sell health-destroying, career-destroying drugs
to the public? My answer is no. The only thing worse would be
criminals selling such drugs to the public. Well, guess what?

F. W. Nagle, Madison