Pubdate: Mon, 10 Aug 2015
Source: San Diego Union Tribune (CA)
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Author: Robert Burns

UNFAIR TO TREAT ALL ADDICTIONS EQUALLY

George Will, who has advocated a libertarian legalization of drugs, 
speaks out of the another side of his mouth in the commentary 
reprinted from The Washington Post titled "ISIS and the cartels" 
(Aug. 6). "Today's levels of addiction are nowhere near the levels 
that probably would be reached under legalization, even without 
assuming the marketing measures that probably would be legal."

Certainly, the ending of prohibition did not harken such addiction 
levels as to alcohol, and Oxycodone isn't marketed like cough syrup.

All addictions are not equal. Sadly, devastating methamphetamine is 
now far more popular here than its much more benign cousin cocaine, 
which is used safely by the natives in South America.

Robert Burns

Ocean Beach
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