Pubdate: Sun, 23 Mar 2008 Source: Tampa Tribune (FL) Copyright: 2008 The Tribune Co. Contact: http://www.tbo.com/news/opinion/submissionform.htm Website: http://www.tampatrib.com/ Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/446 Referenced: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v08/n290/a05.html Author: Howard J. Wooldridge MODERN-DAY PROHIBITION As a Michigan police officer, I worked the trenches of the drug war/prohibition for 18 years. Despite the arrest of millions of drug dealers, the feds readily admit that drugs are readily available to our kids. Joseph Brown, who realizes that after a trillion tax dollars spent we are no closer to a drug-free America, wants a new strategy? Me, too. This is prohibition, not a drug war. We can eliminate the single greatest evil force in America today - drug dealers - by following the example of our grandparents, who did it in 1933: end the new Prohibition. Howard J. Wooldridge, Frederick, Md. - --- MAP posted-by: Richard Lake