TO END DRUG CRIME, REPEAL DRUG LAWS

Thank you for publishing Steve Dasbach's outstanding guest column on March
8, "To fight terrorism, quit fighting drugs." When pure
pharmaceutical-grade Bayer heroin was legally available at local
pharmacies, criminals and terrorists were not involved in recreational
drugs. That's because Bayer heroin and Bayer aspirin were about the same
price - pennies per dose.

If we legalized recreational drugs, they could be taxed, regulated and
controlled by our government. Now drugs are untaxed, unregulated and
controlled by criminal gangs.

Almost all of our so-called "drug-related" crime would end. That's because
almost all of our "drug-related" crime is caused by drug prohibition, not
the drugs.

Kirk Muse

Mesa, Ariz.