Pubdate: Sat, 13 Dec 2014 Source: Winnipeg Free Press (CN MB) Copyright: 2014 Winnipeg Free Press Contact: http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/opinion/send_a_letter Website: http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/ Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/502 Author: Michael Dowling Page: A16 THE COST OF DOING BUSINESS The article on Project Distress ( Drug arrests target higher echelons, Dec. 12) has a misleading title. To the drug dealer, police drug sweeps are merely a cost of doing business, and to police, they are little more than a public relations gesture. Since the Harrison Act was passed in the U.S. in 1914, drugs have only gotten cheaper, purer and more readily available. The rational thing to do about the drug problem is legalize, standardize, and tax it, but that is not politically expedient. Michael Dowling Winnipeg - --- MAP posted-by: Jay Bergstrom