Pubdate: Mon, 16 Sep 2002
Source: Athens News, The (OH)
Copyright: 2002, Athens News
Contact:  http://www.athensnews.com/
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/1603
Author: Kirk Muse

DRUG PROBLEMS RESULT FROM THEIR PROHIBITION RATHER THAN USE

It seems to me that in a free country, adult citizens should be able to 
smoke, snort, swallow or inject any substance they want. Almost all of the 
problems associated with drugs are because the drugs are illegal. When pure 
Bayer heroin was legally sold in local pharmacies, the term "drug-related 
crime" didn't exist. Neither did drug lords or drug cartels. And deaths 
from recreational drugs were very rare because the drugs were of known 
quality, known potency and known purity.

Drugs are not the problem: drug prohibition is the problem.

Kirk Muse

Mesa, Arizona
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