'THE BIG LIE' IS PERVASIVE

RE: 'New politics of pot emerging' (March 19). The Spectator's Rob
Faulkner writes: "The drug trade has always had links to organized
crime." How pervasive the big lie has become.

In fact, criminals only became involved in the natural behaviour of
humans to enjoy plants and plant extracts after the prohibitionists
handed them the greatest money-making tool they have ever beheld.

It can even be said that, before prohibition, there was no such thing
as organized crime.

From Al Capone to Osama bin Laden, prohibitionists have much to answer for.

Parroting the prohibitionists' party line linking drugs -- instead of
the real culprit, prohibition -- to crime shows how well their
propaganda has infected the public's consciousness.

- -- Richard Marchese, Fairfield, N.J.