Prohibition's market

Me: "Prohibition's drug pushing has gotten out of hand. We need to return drugs to a legal and regulated market."

Them: "Legalize drugs? When you become a parent, you will become more conservative."

Facebook post by a niece: "Having children, is like seeing your heart running around outside your body."

This bachelor understands that. When my thirteen year old niece visited for a spell, it frightened me when she was out and about at night. The fear expressed itself as anger, and I was unable to communicate my concern.

Adults have an instinct to protect the young from harm. That's why I think it's unnatural, contrary to nature, and (almost?) Satanic for professional drug prohibitionists to hide our history from us. History shows us, with clarity and certainty, that today's large drug problem was caused by drug prohibition. In dramatic contrast, Europeans, by keeping their drugs legal and controlled, were able to keep their drug problems small. Until they imported our prohibition.

Economics explains history's lesson. There is no mystery, here.

Prohibition prolongs the heightened threat of harm from drugs.

That professional prohibitionists should hide corrective information from caring adults, is of a criminal nature. Such persons should be left to the mercy of parents who have lost someone into the profit-soaked world of drugs.

Let us cut off the honey flow, and reduce the risk to our young. Let us pull drugs out of prohibition's uncontrolled market, and put them into a controlled government dispensary. No advertising.

Wiley Hollingsworth,

Pullman