Pubdate: Thu, 14 Mar 2002 Source: Daily Independent, The (KY) Copyright: 2002 The Daily Independent, Inc. Contact: http://www.dailyindependent.com/ Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/1573 Author: Stan White Referenced: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v02/n385/a04.html LEGALIZING DRUGS WOULD SOLVE MUCH Tim Hodges, asking how "prohibition" is the problem ("Drug testing letter draws response", March 3), caught my attention. The example from the initial prohibition indicates the sequel is identical, in that when we finally do end the prohibition of cannabis and perhaps all plants and drugs, we will actually end a God-awesome amount of problems. That may include ending children getting shot over prohibition battles; deaths because of tainted drugs; incurable police corruption; misdirection of education money, and the earth's largest incarceration rates, which caused Americans to lose our seats on the U.N. Human Rights Commission and the U.N. Narcotics Control Board last year. When the original prohibition ended, the murder rates went down for years, didn't it? Wouldn't America cease killing humans in Columbia for growing plants? It is elementary, this list continues ... Truth is the prohibitionists' worst nightmare ... and I welcome the media, to project the truth on this issue. Stan White, Dillon, Colo. - --- MAP posted-by: Ariel