THE WAR ON DRUGS IS LIKE THE WAR ON ALCOHOL

Kudos to Doug Harlow for his outstanding story "Ex-officer likens
drug war to Prohibition" (April 4). For those who want to continue
our current drug prohibition policies, I'd like to ask them: why do
you want recreational drugs to remain completely unregulated, untaxed
and controlled exclusively by criminals? Only legal products can be
regulated, taxed and controlled by any government agency.

The drug alcohol was not re-legalized because the powers that be
decided that alcohol was not so bad after all, but rather because of
the crime and corruption that its prohibition caused.

When is the last time the Morning Sentinel ran a story about alcohol
distributors killing each other? Probably about 1933, the year we
terminated alcohol prohibition.

Kirk Muse

Mesa, Ariz.