LEGALIZING DRUGS WOULD SOLVE MUCH

Tim Hodges, asking how "prohibition" is the problem ("Drug testing letter
draws response", March 3), caught my attention.

The example from the initial prohibition indicates the sequel is identical,
in that when we finally do end the prohibition of cannabis and perhaps all
plants and drugs, we will actually end a God-awesome amount of
problems. That may include ending children getting shot over prohibition
battles; deaths because of tainted drugs; incurable police corruption;
misdirection of education money, and the earth's largest incarceration
rates, which caused Americans to lose our seats on the U.N. Human Rights
Commission and the U.N. Narcotics Control Board last year.

When the original prohibition ended, the murder rates went down for years,
didn't it? Wouldn't America cease killing humans in Columbia for growing
plants? It is elementary, this list continues ...

Truth is the prohibitionists' worst nightmare ... and I welcome the media,
to project the truth on this issue.

Stan White,

Dillon, Colo.