Pubdate: Thu, 29 May 2014
Source: Chicago Tribune (IL)
Copyright: 2014 Chicago Tribune Company
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Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/82
Author: James E. Gierach

PROHIBITION OF DRUGS LEADS TO VIOLENCE

Neighborhoods beset by violence need to take the prohibition profit 
out of the drug business on Chicago street corners.

Sure those neighborhoods need better schools and jobs, but it's all 
too easy for kids (and adults) to make a career choice of drugs, 
gangs, guns and violence when society encourages and enables that 
very choice by making drugs worth many times their true value, simply 
because drugs are prohibited.

Tranquility or violence.

Legalization or prohibition.

The choice is ours as much as the consequences.

- -- James E. Gierach Law Enforcement Against Prohibition, Palos Park
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MAP posted-by: Jay Bergstrom