DRUG WAR A FAILURE

After 35 years of drug war, a half trillion dollars spent and tens of
thousands of Americans killed, you correctly describe a terrible
world filled with the violence and death of drug prohibition. After
35 years of going backwards (drugs are cheaper and stronger than
ever), how many decades of drug dealers saturating Durham with their
destruction are you proposing the people endure and suffer and pay for?

Editor's note: The writer is an education specialist in the
organization Law Enforcement Against Prohibition, Washington, D.C.

HOWARD J. WOOLDRIDGE

Frederick, Md.