Editor:

The logic of the recent letter by Howard J. Wooldridge, of Law Enforcement Against Prohibition, is fallacious.

It implies that legalizing narcotics and other presently illegal drugs would reduce America's drug problems, but doesn't explain how.

Legalizing drugs would not rid us of our drug problems any more than legalized liquor has kept intoxicated people off our streets or legal tobacco has made us healthier.

All it would do is replace the street dealer with a government dealer. That might be an improvement, but it would do little toward alleviating the consumption problem.

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