Pubdate: Wed, 27 Sep 2006 Source: Goldstream Gazette (Victoria, CN BC) Copyright: 2006 Goldstream News Gazette Contact: http://www.goldstreamgazette.com/ Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/1291 Author: Stan White Referenced: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v06/n1252/a08.html CRIME CAUSED BY PROHIBITION, NOT DRUG USE Re: "Drugs Fuel Crime Spike", Sept. 20, 2006. The News Gazette doesn't get it. Crime isn't due to drugs, but rather drug prohibition. It is in the same way there was crime not due to alcohol and illegal distilleries, but rather alcohol prohibition, during the 1920s. As Al Capone's history in Chicago, Ill. exposes how the original prohibition was bad, the sequel is worse. The News Gazette can help lower crime rates by honestly asking questions, researching and reporting instead of parroting government and law enforcement's one side of the story. Stan White Dillon, CO - --- MAP posted-by: Elaine