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PUT DRUG DEALERS OUT OF BUSINESS

I'm writing in response to your editorial: "Making more room in prisons." ( 4-6-08 ).  Imagine if the United States was once again the "Land of the Free" instead of the most incarcerated nation in the history of human civilization.

Imagine if the American people could feel safe and secure in their own homes and on the streets of our cities and towns throughout America.

Imagine if we had no "drug-related crime." Imagine if our overall crime rate was a small fraction of our current crime rate.  We once had such a situation here in the United States.  Prior to the passage of the Harrison Narcotics Act of 1914, the term "drug-related crime" didn't exist.

And drug lords, drug cartels or even drug dealers as we know them today, didn't exist either.  Back then, all types of recreational drugs were legally sold to anybody with no questions asked, for pennies per dose in grocery stores and pharmacies.

Did we have a lot more drug addicts then compared to now? No.  For the sake of our children, can we re-legalize our now illegal drugs and sell them in licensed business establishments? This would put the street drug dealers out of business overnight.

Kirk Muse

Mesa, AZ