News (Media Awareness Project) - US TX: PUB LTE: Drug War Unmitigated Flop |
| Title: | US TX: PUB LTE: Drug War Unmitigated Flop |
| Published On: | 1997-12-02 |
| Source: | Houston Chronicle |
| Fetched On: | 2008-09-07 19:05:47 |
DRUG WAR UNMITIGATED FLOP
I agree our "war on drugs" has been a failure (Chronicle, Nov. 25, "Mandatory drug sentencing goes too far"). We have spent $65 billion in the last six years, and drugs are still as available as ever.
The integrity of our federal law enforcement and our justice system has been devastated. Both the "war" and the current sentencing practices are immoral and without valid constitutional basis.
The climate of hate surrounding the "war on drugs" has been more detrimental to our society than was the Vietnam War in the 1960s and early 1970s. My father did not serve in Vietnam to enable our government to pay informants to deal drugs to mentally ill people who are then sentenced to absurd mandatory minimum sentences.
It is time for a reevaluation of current policies. The use of informants should be limited to gathering intelligence instead of distributing drugs, and drug addicts should be receiving treatment, not mandatory minimum sentences.
John Wells, Houston
I agree our "war on drugs" has been a failure (Chronicle, Nov. 25, "Mandatory drug sentencing goes too far"). We have spent $65 billion in the last six years, and drugs are still as available as ever.
The integrity of our federal law enforcement and our justice system has been devastated. Both the "war" and the current sentencing practices are immoral and without valid constitutional basis.
The climate of hate surrounding the "war on drugs" has been more detrimental to our society than was the Vietnam War in the 1960s and early 1970s. My father did not serve in Vietnam to enable our government to pay informants to deal drugs to mentally ill people who are then sentenced to absurd mandatory minimum sentences.
It is time for a reevaluation of current policies. The use of informants should be limited to gathering intelligence instead of distributing drugs, and drug addicts should be receiving treatment, not mandatory minimum sentences.
John Wells, Houston
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