REGULATING DISTRIBUTION OF DRUGS WOULD HIT POCKETBOOKS OF DRUG CARTELS

REGULATING DISTRIBUTION OF DRUGS WOULD HIT POCKETBOOKS OF DRUG CARTELS I want to thank Ron Maloney for addressing the problem of drug prohibition. For more than 90 years this "drug war" has wrought havoc on our communities, our nation and indeed the whole world. We have invested more than half a trillion US tax dollars for absolutely zero results. Despite the arrest of tens of millions of our fellow citizens for baggies of powders, flowers and pills, drugs are cheaper, purer and more freely available to our children than ever before. Mr. Maloney, speaking of law enforcement, nailed it when he wrote: "They snipe at one another and there are casualties on both sides, but nothing ever really changes." It was Albert Einstein who summed this situation up best: "Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results." Maloney wrote that: "Police estimate that as much as 90 percent of all crimes are at least tangentially related to substance abuse." Despite our efforts, aspirin and Tylenol still kill more people each year than all the products made by unprofessional, black market "chemists" and most of the deaths attributed to "drug war" result from the violence of prohibition, not the use of the drugs themselves. The day we regulate the distribution of these "illegal" drugs is the day we evaporate the worth of Osama bin Laden's opium stash, is the day we destroy the Colombian drug cartels, is the day we eliminate the reasons for which most violent street gangs exist, is the day we will have lots of room in prison, ( as much as 90% more ), for any street corner vendors who would sell drugs to our children, is the day we basically eliminate drug overdose deaths and is the day we begin to restore respect for law enforcement and the judicial system which have become tainted by the enormous sums of black market payoffs. Zealotry in promulgating eternal drug war seems never to be challenged, yet challenge is necessary; open discussion is paramount to ending this war on our own people. This prohibition of certain potions is quite simply the modern equivalent of the Salem witchcraft trials. Should we not judge people by their actions rather than the plant products found in their pockets? Maloney's final quote from Waldrip: "No matter what you do, what it ultimately boils down to is personal responsibility," To which I can only say, "Amen". DEAN BECKER Houston, TX







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