Pubdate: Sun, 15 Nov 2020 Source: Atlanta Journal-Constitution (GA) Webpage: https://www.ajc.com/opinion/readers-write/265FEYNK2JDADHBW34CAOO7L2M/ Copyright: 2020 The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Contact: http://www.ajc.com/ Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/28 Author: L.O. Cox DRUG WAR PUTS BRAVE POLICE OFFICERS IN DANGEROUS SPOT The drug war needs to end. If the AJC investigated, it would likely find most of the violence is drug war-related. The police are doing the job they were given. You may not like the way they do it, but do not blame them for doing their highly dangerous job. Either make drugs legal, or let the government compete with the drug lords by taking confiscated drugs and giving them free to drug addicts in a special recovery program. If drugs are free or legal, there is no reason for drug lords to exist. They cannot compete with free. This is the way to end most of the violence and social injustice. Not all of it, I am sorry to say, but it would be a start. L.O. COX, CONYERS - --- MAP posted-by: Matt