Pubdate: Tue, 03 Apr 2001
Source: Northwest Florida Daily News (FL)
Copyright: 2001 Northwest Florida Daily News
Contact:  http://www.nwfdailynews.com/
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/313
Author: Mike Plylar
Bookmark: http://www.mapinc.org/traffic.htm (Traffic)

'TRAFFIC' SIGNALS

Re: "An old-fashioned evening with Oscar" (editorial, March 28).

Whether or not "Traffic" accurately portrays U.S. drug policy continues to 
be a point of contention. A few high-level government bureaucrats say nay, 
but box-office receipts and high praise from the masses seem to suggest 
otherwise.

The history of the War on Drugs speaks volumes to the futility of this 
social experiment gone awry.

The past is clear, but what does the future hold?

There's little question that critical mass rapidly approaches as the sheer 
numbers reach staggering proportions and countries around the world begin 
to refuse to support the misguided, delusional, pork-barrel excesses of 
this directionless disaster. Hardly a week passes that the leader of 
another country doesn't suggest that some form of legalization is in order. 
Most recently, the presidents of Uruguay and Mexico spoke the unspeakable.

With the cries for demand reduction at home and the current law enforcement 
dilemma with racial profiling, the next predictable step is to carry the 
war to the suburbs. Middle-class white America is fertile ground for the 
drug war, but the outcry will be deafening.

When the war truly comes home, it will end.

As our ancestors discovered, prohibition doesn't work. Pass it on.

Mike Plylar

Kremmling, Colo.
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