Pubdate: Sun, 08 Apr 2001 Source: Calgary Sun, The (CN AB) Copyright: 2001 The Calgary Sun Contact: http://www.canoe.ca/OttawaSun/home.html Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/67 Author: Chuck Beyer Note: Parenthetical remark by the Sun editor Referenced: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v01/n577/a03.html DRUG PROHIBITION WILL NEVER SUCCEED RE: "BUSTS only cause rise in demand for drugs," April 1. Letter writer N. Speers made a rational presentation of the law of supply and demand as it pertains to the illegal drugs. Rather than issuing one of your standard, flippant remarks I think all readers would appreciate your analysis of why the law of supply and demand would not apply. Seventy years of Soviet communism could not defeat the profit motive. What makes you think that drug prohibition can? Chuck Beyer (Should we base our society on the law of supply and demand?) - --- MAP posted-by: Jo-D