Pubdate: Wed, 19 Nov 2003
Source: Charleston City Paper, The (SC)
Copyright: 2003 The Charleston City Paper
Contact:  http://www.charlestoncitypaper.com/
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/2400
Cited: Law Enforcement Against Prohibition www.leap.cc
Referenced: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v03/n1775/a07.html
Author: Howard J. Wooldridge
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YOU MUST BE HIGH!

As a police officer, I know the futility and failure of drug prohibition. 
Sheriff Al Cannon believes that the liberal notion that more police and 
prisons (more government) can prevent people from putting things in their 
mouths tells me he must be a rookie ("Legalize this," City Beat, Nov. 12).

Worse, his belief in prohibition causes our kids to grow up in a world 
infested with drug dealers and their free samples. Prohibition sucks our 
youth into criminality. I challenge sheriff Cannon to name one positive 
outcome of prohibition.

Howard J. Wooldridge (retired), Member, Law Enforcement Against Prohibition 
(www.leap.cc), Dallas, Texas
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