Dear Editor,
Regarding Dean Morrison’s thoughtful June 2, editorial, the U.S. drug war has done little other than give the land of the free the highest incarceration rate in the world.
Drug prohibition finances organized crime at home and terrorism abroad, which is then used to justify increased drug war spending.
It’s time to end this madness.
Thanks to public education efforts, legal tobacco use has declined considerably in recent years. Apparently mandatory minimum prison sentences, civil asset forfeiture, random drug testing and racial profiling are not necessarily the most cost-effective means of
discouraging unhealthy choices. Drug abuse is bad, but the drug war is worse.
Sincerely,
Robert Sharpe, MPA
Policy Analyst
Common Sense for Drug Policy
Washington, DC
United States of America
