Pubdate: Wed, 04 Oct 2006
Source: Brownsville Herald, The (TX)
Copyright: 2006 The Brownsville Herald
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Author: Ruben S. Garcia III
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TIME TO RETHINK U.S. DRUG POLICY

We see the horrors of the U.S. drug policy everyday here in the 
Valley. I had never heard that there was a group of law enforcement 
officers who felt the same way.

This country's war on drugs has created a permanent caste of 
second-class citizens, costs billions of dollars every year, 
incarcerates minorities at higher levels, and apparently does no 
good. Drugs are still available on every street corner, in every city 
of this great nation.

It is time to promote and demand a logical drug policy of 
legalization and regulation that will take the drugs out of the 
thugs' hands, and stop sending billions of dollars in profits to drug 
lords in South America.

Ruben S. Garcia III

Brownsville Via the Internet 
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