Pubdate: Mon, 22 Dec 2008 Source: Newsweek (US) Copyright: 2008 Newsweek, Inc. Contact: http://www.newsweek.com Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/309 Referenced: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v08/n1078/a01.html Author: Kirk Muse DRUG VIOLENCE ON OUR DOORSTEP Neither Mexico nor the United States has many "drug-related shootings" ("Bloodshed on the Border," Dec. 8).What both Mexico and the United States do have is lots of drug-prohibition-related violent crime. It absolutely will get worse until we end the ban on drugs. Seventy-five years ago, our great-grandfathers regained their sanity and relegalized a different drug, alcohol. Kirk Muse Mesa, Ariz. - --- MAP posted-by: Richard Lake