Pubdate: Sun, 15 Feb 2015
Source: Baltimore Sun (MD)
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Author: Rob Baker

HEROIN TASK FORCE WILL CAUSE MORE HARM THAN GOOD

Attorney General Brian E. Frosh said Thursday that his office will 
join counterparts in the Northeast to share information and jointly 
prosecute drug traffickers ("Maryland joins task force to combat 
heroin traffic, deaths," Feb. 13).

If interdiction and criminalization could solve the problem of drug 
addiction, it would have done so long ago. Mr. Frosh will waste our 
tax dollars, throw people in prison, spy on and harass mostly 
innocent people driving on the highway.

Decriminalization, harm reduction and treatment are what's needed, 
not politicians exploiting a crisis and making it worse.

Rob Baker, Ambler, Pa.
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