Pubdate: Fri, 17 Jul 2009 Source: El Paso Times (TX) Copyright: 2009 El Paso Times Contact: http://www.elpasotimes.com/formnewsroom Website: http://www.elpasotimes.com/ Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/829 Author: Howard Wooldridge REGULATING DRUGS As a police officer in the 1970s, I saw the drug war start. When I retired in 1994, drugs were cheaper, stronger and more available to teens. Everyone hoped that America would soon find the magic bullet, a new strategy to make us drug-free. You wrote that you "hope" that new inter-agency cooperation will result in stopping the drug and gun traffic. Have you not been reading your own headlines the past 40 years? The "Good Guys" are, at best, a mosquito on an elephant. You want to scare the Mexican narcotraficantes? Let your headline tomorrow be: Legalize/regulate drugs. Howard Wooldridge Dallas - --- MAP posted-by: Richard R Smith Jr