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Published August 27, 2008 04:51 pm - THE PEOPLE SPEAK: Legalization of drugs would help country I’m writing about J. D. Lape’s Aug. 17 thoughtful letter: “Let’s take the profits out of dealing drugs.”
Imagine if we had no “drug-related crime.” Imagine if our overall crime rate was a small fraction of our current crime rate. We once had such a situation here in the United States. Prior to the passage of the Harrison Narcotics Act of 1914, the term “drug-related crime” didn’t exist. And drug lords, drug cartels or even drug dealers as we know them today didn’t exist either. Back then, all types of recreational drugs were legally sold to anybody with no questions asked, for pennies per dose in grocery stores and pharmacies. Did we have a lot more drug addicts then compared to now? No. We had about the same percentage of our population addicted to drugs, according to U. S. federal judge John L. Kane of Colorado. For the sake of our children, can we re-legalize our now illegal drugs and sell them in licensed business establishments? This would put the drug dealers and drug lords out of business overnight. Kirk Muse Mesa, Ariz. 
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