Pubdate: Sun, 14 Apr 2002 Source: Macon Telegraph (GA) Copyright: 2002 The Macon Telegraph Publishing Company Contact: http://www.macontelegraph.com/ Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/667 Author: Lee Cooper WRONG AGAIN I am writing this letter in response to David Corr's recent letter about drugs and prostitution. What I am writing about is the completely ignorant statement, "We spend billions of dollars to fight an unwinnable war on these activities which harm nobody but arguably those who engage in them." The man who writes over $10,000 worth of bad checks in a two-month period of time so he can afford his crack and cocaine during that time affects no one but himself. Right? Wrong. He goes to jail not for the drugs alone but for the $10,000 dollars worth of bad checks and a few counts of theft. You still say "That's him." Wrong again. His two sons who are seven and 10 now haven't seen their father in 3 years, and his ex-wife has to answer the question of where their daddy is. What about the man who overdosed while taking Ecstasy and cocaine? He died so it only affected him right? Wrong. He left a 6-year-old son behind, as well as a wife. If you want to talk about destroying lives and disrupting families, just take your eyes off that powder for a little while and look at the real world. I guess if drugs were legal, neither of these two instances would have occurred. Drugs and people themselves ruin lives, not the laws against them. Lee Cooper Montrose - --- MAP posted-by: Keith Brilhart