SUPREME COURT MISGUIDED IN DRUG EVICTION RULING

Dear Editor,

The Supreme Court has decided that innocent public housing tenants can be
evicted if their guests or family members are caught with illegal drugs.

The court believes that drugs lead to murders, muggings, and other forms of
violence against tenants. It doesn't occur to them that drug markets are
actually quite peaceful in the absence of prohibition, judging from
convenience stores and supermarkets that sell all kinds of regulated drugs.

It's become a mania among our leaders to cook up destructive drug policies
and then blame the resulting destruction on the drugs themselves. I suppose
now they'll say drugs cause public housing evictions, too.

Too bad this ruling doesn't apply to other forms of public housing such as
the White House and the Florida Governor's Mansion.

Larry A. Stevens

Springfield