Pubdate: Wed, 13 Dec 2000
Source: Christian Science Monitor (US)
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Author: Dave Michon
Related: URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v00/n1856/a06.

WHAT THE DRUG WAR NEEDS

Doug Bandow of the Cato Institute and former special assistant to
Ronald Reagan has written a most sensible opinion piece on drug
prohibition ("The Robert Downey Jr. problem," Dec. 11).

It takes moral courage to stand up against a policy was falsely sold
to us as upholding morality. The evidence is completely overwhelming,
however: The drug war itself is a far greater evil than the social and
health problems it promised to solve.

Dave Michon,
Eau Claire, Wis.
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