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LEGALIZING DRUGS WOULD HELP WITH JAIL OVERCROWDING

I'm writing about Jason A.  Ludwick's letter: "Jail overcrowding has simple and inexpensive solution" ( 5-23-07 ).  I agree with Ludwick that there is a simple and inexpensive solution to jail overcrowding situation but it's not putting prisoners in tents.

The simple, common sense way to eliminate your jail and prison overcrowding situation: reserve you jails and prisons for only those who intentionally harm others against their will.

Not gardeners.  Not people who use, produce or sell to willing buyers "unapproved" substances.

Then sell the "unapproved" substances to willing buyers in licensed and regulated business establishments.  This will eliminate drug dealers as we know them today.  And this will make the term "drug-related crime" obsolete.

Will we still have drug addicts? Yes.  Will drug addicts need to rob, steal or commit acts of prostitution to obtain money to purchase their drugs? No.

Will the jail and prison guards object? Yes.  Will the jail builders and prison builders object? Yes.

Kirk Muse

Mesa, Ariz.