To the Editor:

On Dec. 8, you wrote a piece applauding the state patrol in keeping illegal drugs off state highways.

Please allow me to object to your statement because it might lead some weak-minded people to think that stricter law enforcement would do some good regarding our illegal drug problem. That is just plain wrong. Prohibition does not work.

The same law that made alcohol illegal also made heroin illegal. It did not work for alcohol and it will never work for heroin. The lawmakers, those gutless politicians, again made alcohol legal in 1933 but they did not make heroin legal.

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