"DRUGS' ILLEGALITY LINKS THEM TO TERRORISM"

Re: "ELDER BUSH LINKS DRUG, TERROR WARS" (March 19). Drugs and terror are
linked for one reason: Prohibition. Without prohibition, the easy-to-grow
poppies would be worth what other easy-to-grow flowers and weeds are
worth. Very little.

When pure pharmaceutical grade Bayer heroin was legally sold in local
pharmacies for about the same price as Bayer aspirin, criminals and
terrorists were not involved in the drug business. Almost 100 percent of
our so-called drug related crime is caused by drug prohibition. Not drugs.

Drugs don't support organized crime; drug prohibition does. Drugs don't
support international terrorists; drug prohibition does.

Kirk Muse

Mesa