Re: “Grow op kids need help,” Editorial, July 30. I must take issue with your editorial regarding the removal of children from homes where there is illegal marijuana being grown. You spoke of the authorities and the parents, but you forgot the children themselves. What impact do you think it […]

Re: “Legal drugs and gangs,” July 1. The editorial on the failed “war on drugs” is music to the ears of the criminal justice professionals who make up Law Enforcement Against Prohibition. We know, from personal experience, that prohibition enriches criminal gangs and fosters criminal activity while doing nothing to […]

Citing federal interference, the legislature has exempted Texas from federal energy standards regarding light bulbs. Texas State Rep. George Lavender hopes incandescent light bulb manufacturers will move to Texas and create jobs and tax revenue. In contrast, the Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, Sen. Lamar Smith, R-Texas, says he […]

Obfuscation is the name of the game for Joseph Califano and William Bennett. The Netherlands has about half the marijuana use we do and, with no marketing link to cocaine, about one-eighth our cocaine use, according to a World Health Organization survey. Marijuana use is up 30% here in the […]

To the Editor: Sylvia Longmire misses the mark in focusing on how legalizing marijuana won’t put drug cartels completely out of business (“Legalization Won’t Kill the Cartels,” Op-Ed, June 19). Sure, some cartel members will continue selling other illicit wares once marijuana is legalized, but since they currently earn about […]

The June 15 story about another big drug investigation to bust a major pipeline to the Capital Region avoided questions of law enforcement that would address the tough reality that drug prohibition doesn’t work. All of these drug investigations are concentrated in the inner cities while the wealthier suburban areas […]

Pubdate: Fri, 17 Jun 2011 Source: Houston Chronicle (TX) Copyright: 2011 Houston Chronicle Publishing Company Division, Hearst Newspaper Author: Buford C. Terrell Referenced: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v11/n390/a10.html Regarding “Hard stuff; Get real about dealing with illegal drugs” (Page B11, Tuesday), the emperor has no clothes. Thank you for your editorial praising the report […]

Pubdate: Sat, 11 Jun 2011 Source: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (PA) Copyright: 2011 PG Publishing Co., Inc. Contact: http://drugsense.org/url/pm4R4dI4 Website: http://www.post-gazette.com/ Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/341 Author: Amesh A. Adalja, M.D. Referenced: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v11/n360/a01.html BODILY RIGHTS I applaud the conclusions of the Global Commission on Drug Policy — detailed in Tony Norman’s June 3 column (“Ease […]

GRIEVING PARENTS: LEGALIZE ALL DRUGS Re: Heroin That Goes Far Beyond Junk, Joe O’Connor, May 13. As grieving parents of a son who died at age 19 in 1993 after ingesting some street heroin, may we offer our comments? When America prohibited alcohol, thousands were poisoned by adulterated market booze. […]