Pubdate: 20 Aug, 1999 Source: Guardian, The (UK) Copyright: Guardian Media Group 1999 Contact: http://www.guardian.co.uk/ Author:Roger Howard (Standing Conference on Drug Abuse) Section: Letters Author: Ian Shotton HOW TO DEAL WITH DRUGS (LTE 5) Your correspondent (Letters, August 18) claims that legalising drugs will result in a massive loss of income for drugs dealers and consequently hit the local economy. Surely rather than transfer wealth from dealer to the treasury, it would leave more cash in the pockets of the equally impoverished end-users. This of course assumes that the government allows this natural reallocation of income to happen by preventing the replacement distribution network from profiteering. Ian Shotton London - --- MAP posted-by: Thunder