LIVES ARE RUINED, DRUGS LIVE ON

A recent "Dateline" concerned the drug Ecstasy, which is very popular with
teens and college students. A group of students made the drug with
information found on the World Wide Web, buying chemicals from a business
owner who himself had a record for manufacturing Ecstasy.

The cop summed it up in the final interview. Asked if the arrest of seven
people would impact the supply of the drug, he said, "No, probably not, but
it will impact those seven kids."

Nice epitaph for the drug war -- no impact on drug supply or drug use, but
many individual lives "impacted," i.e., ruined!

John Powers