DRUGS AND TERRORISM

Many people took note of the Super Bowl commercials that claimed drug users
were funding terrorists. While it is technically true that much drug
smuggling is done by terrorist groups, the accusation that drug users are
funding terrorism makes as much sense as accusing alcoholics of supporting
Al Capone during the prohibition period of the 1920s.

It is the prohibitionist policies, and not the users, that have allowed
terrorists and other criminals to profit immensely from the black market
drug trade.

Ari Elias-Bachrach, President, Washington University Students for Sensible
Drug Policy