THE COUNTERPRODUCTIVE WAR ON DRUGS

The counterproductive war on drugs continues because it has created a huge
bureaucracy of people, institutions and industries with a vested financial
interest in its continuation.

Today we have more prisoners than any other country in history, primarily
because of our drug war. Those 2 million prisoners create hundreds of
thousands of relatively high-paying government jobs, and government
employees and others with drug-war-created jobs will do anything and
everything in their power to make sure the drug war never ends.

Until we can solve this problem, our drug war and prison population will
continue to expand. And our personal freedoms will continue to shrink.

Kirk Muse,

Vancouver, Wash.