Pubdate: Mon, 12 Jun 2006 Source: Post and Courier, The (Charleston, SC) Copyright: 2006 Evening Post Publishing Co. Contact: http://www.charleston.net/ Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/567 Referenced: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v06/n697/a03.html Author: Norm Meyer DRUG LAW REFORM Regarding the article concerning South Carolinians for Drug Law Reform: Regulating all drugs seems like a great idea. All the violence during the Prohibition era has, of course, been recycled to the drug trade. Treatment for users would be so much better than jail time and a lot cheaper for taxpayers. Fewer families would be broken up, and fewer kids would be unsupervised. It would be a lot less grief for all. The billions of dollars we have spent in the drug war seem to have gone up someone's nose or up in smoke. If you are against drug-law reform or regulating drug use, then you are for the continuing violence, the disruption of families, unsupervised children running the streets and the grief because drug use won't stop just by sending someone to jail, to prison, or putting them to death. Treatment would help immensely. NORM MEYER - --- MAP posted-by: Beth Wehrman