Pubdate: Thu, 19 Aug 2010 Source: Guardian, The (UK) Copyright: 2010 Richard Carter Contact: http://www.guardian.co.uk/guardian/ Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/175 Referenced: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v10.n684.a09.html Author: Richard Carter TARGETED MEDIA Just substitute "alcohol" for "drugs" in your excellent editorial (18 August) and it's all too easy to show further the stupidity of the whole war on drugs. Your description of the desperate consequences of this ludicrous "war", including turf wars, gangland killings and drive-by shootings, exactly mirrors the Capone reign of terror in prohibition-era America. Past time, as you say, to abandon this failed prohibition - as was done over alcohol, belatedly, in the US in 1933 after untold harm had been caused. Dr Richard Carter London - --- MAP posted-by: Richard Lake