Pubdate: Tue, 23 Dec 2003 Source: Ashcroft Cache Creek Journal, The (CN BC) Copyright: 2003 Ashcroft Cache Creek Journal Contact: http://www.ash-cache-journal.com/ Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/3157 Author: Kirk Muse Referenced: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v03/n1915/a04.html SEND MESSAGE Editor, Thanks for publishing David Lane's short and to the point letter: "Deflate Crime" (12-11-03). I'd like to add that if drugs were legalized and sold in regulated age-controlled markets, the jail and prison builders would be out of business. Almost 100 per cent of so-called "drug-related crime" is actually drug criminalization caused crime. When Coca-Cola contained cocaine instead of caffeine and sold for 5 cents a bottle, drug lords, drug cartels and drug dealers as we know them today, didn't exist. Neither did the term "drug-related crime." What message would re-legalizing recreational drugs send to our children? It's not the proper role of a free country's government to attempt to protect adult citizens from themselves. Kirk Muse Mesa, Arizona - --- MAP posted-by: Josh