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LEGALIZE DRUGS FOR ECONOMIC FIX

Here's a suggestion that would help stimulate this economy: Eliminate the ridiculous "war on drugs."

Legalize the drugs, regulate them and tax the heck out of them.  Here we'd have a new source of revenue and stimulate a new income crop! Then use the billions wasted eradicating marijuana and coca crops, and putting people in jail for having "roaches" in their car ashtrays, to restart the Civilian Conservation Corps.  Put people to work repairing our crumbling infrastructure, such as bridges and roads.

Maybe we could infuse money into high-speed rail.  Or even build prisons to eliminate overcrowding and to house those who really deserve to be incarcerated.

Liquor is a billion-dollar industry in America, and the ending of Prohibition made that possible.  People were drinking in spite of that law, and crime soared.  People will always be tempted by pot and cocaine, and risk being labeled criminals.  Maybe we should learn from history.

RICHARD CALDERWOOD, Palm Coast