Pubdate: Thu, 03 Feb 2011 Source: Chico News & Review, The (CA) Copyright: 2011 Chico Community Publishing, Inc. Contact: http://www.newsreview.com/chico/ Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/559 Author: Toni Carrell Referenced: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v11/n060/a07.html WHY IS BOOZE OK? Re "The eternal Drug War" (Guest comment, by William A. Collins, Jan. 27): Hear, hear! I am sick and tired of this stupid, costly war on drugs and the government's insistence that "Drugs are bad, mmmkay?" Yet all the while alcohol use is not just A-OK, but actually encouraged everywhere from the corner grocery store to state dinners at the White House. Alcohol consumption is responsible for thousands of deaths annually. Families go asunder every day because of alcohol. Alcohol is by far the most damaging and ubiquitous drug in our society, yet no politician ever demands or even suggests that it should be criminalized again. The time has come for our society to take a look at the facts-the real facts, not propaganda disseminated by the same people who profit from the status quo. Toni Carrell Gridley - --- MAP posted-by: Jay Bergstrom