NATION HAS DRUG PROHIBITION PROBLEM

In regard to John Goldie's comments (In Your View, Dec. 18) suggesting we
Californians who oppose the drug war ought to legalize drugs in our state
so that drug users in your state might move out here, he really ought to
consider that the most likely residents to make such a move are those who
otherwise are quite law abiding and who live their lives peacefully,
productively and as they choose.

People who can see past all the "reefer madness" propaganda know that
throughout the United States we don't have a drug problem so much as we
have a drug prohibition problem. Further scrutiny of failed drug policy
will show that prohibition isn't about public safety, it's about public
safety budgets.

Addiction isn't limited to ingestable substances.

Rick Root, Westminster, Calif.