Letters Feb. 16: Drug-crisis solution; downtown labyrinth; council's spending priorities
I’m tired of paying for the war on drugs from one pocket and enabling drug use from the other, and if my understanding is correct, “decriminalizing” means that users will still buy drugs illegally, but will have a safe place to use them, and help will be at hand when it turns out they are poisonous. Or users will be supplied with substitutes that they don’t consider strong enough, and will continue to buy and use whatever they can find. That’s dumb. The government should go into the drug business. The basic materials (opium, cocaine, whatever) are dirt cheap at the source. The pr...
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