Pubdate: Sun, 22 Mar 2009 Source: Los Angeles Times (CA) Copyright: 2009 Los Angeles Times Contact: http://drugsense.org/url/bc7El3Yo Website: http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/front/ Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/248 Referenced: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v09/n306/a01.html Author: Ralph Goldstein DRUG WAR STRATEGIES How might the U.S. help Mexico? Send in our National Guard? Bomb the marijuana fields and suspected cartel hangouts? While Franklin Roosevelt's economic remedies are gaining renewed interest, let's adopt yet another of his policies: End drug prohibition by regulating the sale and taxation of these substances that, like it or not, are widely consumed. When alcohol was welcomed back in 1933, bootleggers went bust, street crime lessened and government coffers filled. We know our current policies do not work; let's try one that does. Ralph Goldstein Altadena - --- MAP posted-by: Richard Lake