Pubdate: Tue, 18 Jan 2011
Source: Detroit News (MI)
Copyright: 2011 The Detroit News
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Author: Kirk Muse

ENFORCEMENT HASN'T HELPED

Kudos to Froma Harrop for her column, "War on drugs has been a 
failure" (Dec. 31). I'd like to add that arresting or killing the 
heads of drug cartels has an effect similar to cutting off the top of 
a weed -- it will grow back, stronger than ever. The only way to get 
rid of any weed is to kill the root -- and the root of our drug 
problem is prohibition. Law enforcement didn't get rid of the alcohol 
cartels in 1933; re-legalizing alcohol did.

Kirk Muse, Mesa, Ariz.
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