Editor;
Re: PM points police as key players in drug eradication (PM May 10, 2012) “...efforts to eradicate the problem of drugs...” - Good luck with that! So far all efforts to “eradicate” drugs have only made things worse. It amazes me that there are actually still some people out there who believe that prohibition works when there is so much evidence and experience now to the contrary.
Freddy F
Jimi Hendrix overdosed on Vesparax, a prescription drug. Elvis died of a barbiturate overdose, prescribed by a physician. Neither of these fall under prohibition.
You could just as easily cite the thousands killed yearly because of prohibition.
Each year many people die from cigarettes, or alcohol, or being obese, or in traffic accidents, yet all these things are legal.
A major motivation to repealing alcohol prohibition was the violence and lawlessness it provoked.
I can't help but point out that drug use kills the user, prohibition causes many innocent deaths. Plenty of them are not drug users.
In other words, your argument is spurious at best.
You don't read the news about gold snatchings, robberies, assaults, etc committed by people wanting money for drugs. Maybe the police should hand out the drugs. Yeah, there is the answer. Now, about your 'evidence and experience to the contrary'? Evidence from US entertainers like Jimmi Hendrix, Janice Joplin, Jim Morrison, Elvis, Whitney Houston, etc seems to indicate that drugs will kill you. Ask the unfortunate farangs like the Banladeshi's who were killed and poisoned by drugs how it's working in Pattaya.
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