Re: "War on drugs has benefits," letter to the editor, Wednesday, Jan. 24.

Kevin Kupferschmid asks what a country without a drug war would look like, and trots out a dystopian fantasy of a high-crime society.

But we don't have to rely on fantasy; we can look at the many European countries that have chosen a treatment-based approach to drugs.

We don't find anything like Kupferschmid's fantasy. In Holland, for example, the murder rate is about 20 per cent of what it is in the drug warriors' U.S.

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