Editor, Daily News:

May columnist Ben Bova's clear-eyed vision be extended.

The drug war is not stopping drugs. What is it doing? Growing ever-more brutal organized crime, giving us the biggest prison population in the world, clogging our courts, corrupting and distracting our police, spending many billions of tax dollars without results.

And the biggest drug problem we have -- alcohol -- runs rampant. We need treatment, we need education, we need to free our police for real work.

We need to decriminalize drugs.

Charles Payne Jr.

Naples

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