To the Editor;

Your editorial ("Who is Dangerous? 9/23/99) is very confusing.

On one hand you seem to be trying to say that drugs cause violence and therefore the people in question need to be in prison to make our society safe. On the other hand, every single example you used to make your case clearly shows that the violence you are concerned about is caused , not by the drugs, but by the prohibition of those drugs. "Addicts" who rob or steal to get money to buy drugs are not robing and stealing because they are high. They are robbing and stealing because of the artificially high prices of these drugs created by prohibition. We should have learned this lesson from the last time we tried drug prohibition in this country, alcohol prohibition in the 1930's, but , obviously, too many of us didn't. Al Capone didn't kill people because he was drunk, he killed people because of money.

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