AS AMERICAN, HE SAYS HE HAS RIGHT TO PARTAKE IN ANY DRUG HE DEEMS RIGHT

In reference to your Feb. 26 editorial, "Don't gut drug squad," I have a
few questions concerning your evident support of drug prohibition.

Do you agree with the words, "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that
all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with
certain inalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the
pursuit of happiness" taken from the Declaration of Independence?

Doesn't that imply that people have the right to ingest any drug in pursuit
of their particular version of happiness, however harmful, so long as they
physically harm no one else?

Is it not true that if drugs were legalized the flow of funds to terrorist
groups would dry up? How much money does Osama bin Laden make from booze
and tobacco?

If drugs are banned because they are harmful to users, why, then, are
tobacco and alcohol not banned? Is it not true that banning a drug harms
users because it forces them to rely on a drug whose potency and purity are
unknown? ?

Drug prohibition is nothing less than a state-sanctioned pogrom directed
against an identifiable minority (innocent drug users and distributors) to
ostracize and annihilate them.

ALAN RANDELL