Pubdate: Thur, 30 Nov 2000 Source: Baltimore Sun (MD) Copyright: 2000 The Baltimore Sun, a Times Mirror Newspaper. Contact: 501 N. Calvert Street P.0. Box 1377 Baltimore, MD 21278 Fax: (410) 315-8912 Website: http://www.sunspot.net/ Forum: http://www.sunspot.net/cgi-bin/ultbb/Ultimate.cgi?action=intro Authors: John S. Angevine and Sonny Church FUNDING THE WAR ON DRUGS WON'T STOP THE CARNAGE Violent crime in Baltimore: When does the killing stop? The killing will stop when we sell drugs in the grocery stores. We had the killing in the streets during Prohibition. It stopped when President Franklin Roosevelt signed the amendment that ended Prohibition. John S. Angevine, Baltimore - ------------------------ With all due respect to the writer of the letter "Coast Guard needs means to fight drug smuggling" (Nov. 27) and the U.S. Coast Guard, the money they propose to fight a drug war we cannot win would be better spent developing solutions to help people enslaved by drugs. How many billions will we spend before coming to the obvious conclusion: The war on drugs is over, and the good guys lost? How many hopeless addicts will be caged in prisons? How many dedicated police officers will be buried -- their families left grieving and embittered? Prohibition is not the answer. It didn't work in the 1920s and it won't work now. Sonny Church, Fallston - --- MAP posted-by: Don Beck