Pubdate: Sun, 29 Apr 2001
Source: Contra Costa Times (CA)
Copyright: 2001 Contra Costa Newspapers Inc.
Contact: http://www.contracostatimes.com/contact_us/letters.htm
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/96
Website: http://www.contracostatimes.com/
Author: Joel Olney
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DRUG WAR FAILURE

The senseless tragedy of a Peruvian military plane shooting down the
missionaries flying in from Columbia puts the expensive, ineffectual,
failure of a drug war into a new light. Is the reward really worth the
risk?

Spending billions of our hard-earned tax dollars to try to attack the
growing and delivery of illegal plants has been an expensive failure and
has not reduced drug usage in the United States at all. So why are we
doing it?

It is time for us and our elected representatives to look at the facts
about the drug war and make some smart decisions.

Joel Olney, Pleasanton
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