Letter: Drug Policy Exacerbates Nation's Drug Problems
Peter Christopher
June 24, 2008
Greensboro News & Record
Kudos to David Lefkowitz for his thoughtful letter regarding drug legalization. Every commission empaneled in the past century has recommended a drug policy much different from what we have today.
Our "tough-on-crime" politicians, backed by a drug-abuse industrial complex hungry for our tax dollars for programs and grants, more or less exacerbate the drug war and solve little.
You can read about past drug commissions at: http://www.druglibrary.org/Schaffer/LIBRARY/studies/cu/cu60.html. The real truth of the internecine relationship of guns, money and drugs worldwide may be that they can only be reined in through drug regulation and treatment, no matter what testimony the drug-abuse, law-enforcement, prison industrial complex provides our elected officials and the double-talk we get as a result.
Cui bono? | 
