Pubdate: Wed,  4 Mar 2009
Source: San Jose Mercury News (CA)
Copyright: 2009 San Jose Mercury News
Contact:  http://www.mercurynews.com/
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/390
Author: Jane Marcus

DRUG POLICY AS PUBLIC HEALTH ISSUE

In response to Ron Dionne (Letters, March 3) on the subject of
legalizing a drug, just replace the words "meth" with Ritalin,
"cocaine" with medical grade cocaine, and "heroin" with morphine or
any other drug available by prescription to see how the future would
be different if we approach drug policy as a public health problem
rather than as a criminal justice issue.

Jane Marcus

Palo Alto
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