Pubdate: Thu, 28 Aug 2003 Source: Tomahawk, The (TN) Copyright: 2003 The Tomahawk Online Contact: http://www.thetomahawk.com/ Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/1977 Author: Chris Buors SOLUTION: REPEAL ALL DRUG LAWS Dear Editor: If the harms to the people of Johnson County are as horrible as suggested by the And What About The Children piece, then I would strongly suggest the only viable solution to "the problem" of illicit Meth labs. Libertarian Milton Friedman has made the case to repeal all drug prohibition laws permitting all drugs to be available in the free-market. The profit motive to produce Meth on the home stove top would be gone absent prohibition. Pharmaceutical companies could safely produce Meth for pennies apiece. The purity would be assured and a quality control system open to inspection similar to distilleries and other pharmaceutical manufacturing would be the result. There is a lot of information on the internet. The Germans handed out Meth as a performance enhancers in battle and psychiatrists once handed Meth out like candies. No one suffered all the evils present in Johnson County when ever there was a legal source. In fact all the evils in Johnson County can be directly attributed to prohibition and not Meth. When unsafe liquor stills were blowing up all over the countryside and the Volstead Act was law, the American people were smart enough to understand those incidents happened because of prohibition. Why can't American understand the correlated evils of prohibition no matter what the substance? Let me close by reminding Americans that the notion that government can some how protect children from substances would startle Thomas Jefferson not to mention Aristotle. Parents protect the children, they have since time began and they will until time ends. Chris Buors Winnipeg Manitoba - --- MAP posted-by: Keith Brilhart