News (Media Awareness Project) - US TX: PUB LTE: Opium Fields |
| Title: | US TX: PUB LTE: Opium Fields |
| Published On: | 2002-04-19 |
| Source: | Austin American-Statesman (TX) |
| Fetched On: | 2008-01-23 12:27:37 |
OPIUM FIELDS
Your April 11 letter writer ("Opium fields forever?") doesn't seem to
understand the basic laws of economics. Destroying the opium fields
in Afghanistan will only keep the price of opium artificially high.
As long as Americans want drugs, and we are willing to pay a
substantial price for them, somebody from somewhere will produce and
supply them.
We have no more right destroying the opium or cocaine fields of other
countries than other countries have destroying our tobacco fields. In
fact, other countries have more of a right to destroy our tobacco
because tobacco kills a lot more people than illegal drugs do.
KIRK MUSE
Mesa, Ariz.
Your April 11 letter writer ("Opium fields forever?") doesn't seem to
understand the basic laws of economics. Destroying the opium fields
in Afghanistan will only keep the price of opium artificially high.
As long as Americans want drugs, and we are willing to pay a
substantial price for them, somebody from somewhere will produce and
supply them.
We have no more right destroying the opium or cocaine fields of other
countries than other countries have destroying our tobacco fields. In
fact, other countries have more of a right to destroy our tobacco
because tobacco kills a lot more people than illegal drugs do.
KIRK MUSE
Mesa, Ariz.
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