Pubdate: Mon, 24 Dec 2001
Source: Daily Independent, The (KY)
Copyright: 2001 The Daily Independent, Inc.
Contact:  http://www.dailyindependent.com/
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/1573
Author: Rick Root
Referenced: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v01/n2101/a10.html

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.
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