END DRUG PROHIBITION

Re: Legalize drugs, Letters, Dec. 10.
I must make a comment to your editorial comment following the common
sense letter by writer Amber Mapes.

After Mapes recommended Canada ending its war on drugs and not
following the in the footsteps of the failed efforts in the U.S., you
followed up with the comment:

"It's not a new idea, but one that'll likely not see the light of day."

It has indeed seen the light of day. The Prohibition of alcohol was
ended for many of the same failures plaguing the War On Drugs. Why
not take away the policy that is the cartels' cash cow... their
golden egg laying goose and cook it instead? Prohibition is a policy
doomed to fail.

Allan Erickson

Eugene, Ore.

(You're comparing apples and oranges.)