Pubdate: Sun, 1 Mar 2009
Source: Dallas Morning News (TX)
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Author: Peter Ochs

STOP ILLICIT DRUG TRADE

I'd like to answer Tod Robertson's questions. I know of no criminal 
networks still supplying
moonshine. I'm sure most would prefer a standardized production brew:
a Budweiser, a Corona, et al., to one brewed by a stranger and then
smuggled across the border. The latter will never be able to compete
in price and safety with controlled mass production. The cursory
statistics fail to mention that teens today primarily abuse drugs from
their parents' medicine cabinets, not from cartels. A person's
physiological and neurological makeup does not change based on laws.

Legalization will just stop making criminals of the ill.

Peter Ochs, Dallas