Pubdate: Thu, 27 Feb 2003
Source: Town Talk, The  (Alexandria, LA)
Copyright: 2003sThe Town Talk
Contact:  http://www.thetowntalk.com/
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/1027
Author: John Moser

LEGALIZE DRUGS

Town Talk Managing Editor Ron Grant in his column last Sunday implies that 
tougher police action is required for the drug interdiction problems of 
South Alexandria. Such action is apparently already stern, and to make it 
tougher seems of dubious value.

Needed in Alexandria and in the rest of the nation is to place the problem 
on an economic basis by enforcing drug consumption in a manner similar to 
that of alcohol. As reprehensible as it may seem, letting Philip Morris 
market illegal drugs would not only instantly dry up this 
multibillion-dollar black market, but it would also provide tax revenue for 
the funding of economic incentives leading to the gainful employment of 
endangered young black males presently engaged in activities leading to 
their early deaths.

John Moser

Pineville
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