News (Media Awareness Project) - US LA: PUB LTE: Have We Learned Any Lessons About Drugs? |
| Title: | US LA: PUB LTE: Have We Learned Any Lessons About Drugs? |
| Published On: | 2002-03-16 |
| Source: | Daily Advertiser, The (LA) |
| Fetched On: | 2008-01-24 16:51:18 |
HAVE WE LEARNED ANY LESSONS ABOUT DRUGS?
Thank you for publishing Alan Randell's outstanding letter, "Why do
governments prohibit some drugs" on March 2. I would like to add that
almost all so-called "drug related" crime is actually drug prohibition
caused crime.
Nobody was robbing, stealing or committing acts of prostitution to obtain
money to purchase drugs when Coca-Cola contained cocaine instead of
caffeine and when pure pharmaceutical grade Bayer heroin was legally
available at local pharmacies for about the same price as Bayer aspirin.
When alcohol prohibition ended in 1933, the U.S. murder rate declined for
10 consecutive years. Have we learned any lessons?
Not yet!
Kirk Muse,
Mesa, Ariz.
Thank you for publishing Alan Randell's outstanding letter, "Why do
governments prohibit some drugs" on March 2. I would like to add that
almost all so-called "drug related" crime is actually drug prohibition
caused crime.
Nobody was robbing, stealing or committing acts of prostitution to obtain
money to purchase drugs when Coca-Cola contained cocaine instead of
caffeine and when pure pharmaceutical grade Bayer heroin was legally
available at local pharmacies for about the same price as Bayer aspirin.
When alcohol prohibition ended in 1933, the U.S. murder rate declined for
10 consecutive years. Have we learned any lessons?
Not yet!
Kirk Muse,
Mesa, Ariz.
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