Pubdate: Mon, 18 Feb 2013
Source: Globe and Mail (Canada)
Copyright: 2013 The Globe and Mail Company
Contact:  http://www.theglobeandmail.com/
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/168
Author: Christopher Price

SO IT GOES

"What Al Capone was to beer and whisky during Prohibition, [Sinaloa 
cartel leader Joaquin] Guzman is to narcotics." The sheer irony of 
this statement, quoted in your article Drug Dealer Is Named Chicago's 
Public Enemy No. 1 - Feb. 15), is too much to bear.

Gangsters in the 1930s were stopped by abolishing Prohibition, not by 
the police. Yet, Mr. Guzman's "time is coming," says a U.S. Drug 
Enforcement Administration official. What time - when he's gunned 
down and replaced by someone else five minutes later? Are the obscene 
profits created by drug prohibition laws going anywhere?

Those who forget history are doomed to repeat it. Or better yet, as 
Kurt Vonnegut wrote, so it goes, so it goes.

Christopher Price,

Toronto
- ---
MAP posted-by: Jay Bergstrom