Editor:

Your editorial "Overcrowded Prison System" (July 8) prompts, once again, a call for common sense: repeal drug prohibition.

Ironically, it appeared on the same page as Charley Reese's column (http://www.lewrockwell.com/reese/reese384.html) headlined "Legal System Is Perverted." Though the case he cited was not related to drug policy, Mr. Reese is, nevertheless, a most articulate and outspoken opponent of our nation's drug polices - policies which foster international crime cartels, street gangs, narco-terrorism, use by minors, clandestine meth labs, police corruption, overburdened courts, and of course, explosive growth in prison populations by inmates who are neither violent nor thieving. And, to put it lightly, the "War on Drugs" has perverted our legal system.

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