Pubdate: Tue, 23 Mar 2010
Source: Wall Street Journal (US)
Copyright: 2010 Dow Jones & Company, Inc.
Contact:  http://www.wsj.com/
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/487
Referenced: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v10/n182/a06.html
Author: Will Cummings

DRUG WAR: A DESTRUCTIVE, IMMORAL DOMESTIC POLICY

Your editorial dismisses any notion of legalizing drugs, saying that, 
"If this were a popular or at all politically realistic trade-off, we 
suspect some candidate would have proposed it." Are we now to limit 
the scope of our thinking to what has already been proposed by 
political candidates? If so, then it would seem that we are doomed to 
endlessly recycle the old ideas that haven't worked. I would like to 
point out that what is popular and politically realistic is also 
highly malleable. Politicians are followers, not leaders.

Will Cummings

Kent, Wash. 
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