Dear editor:

I read the piece by George Will in the Oct. 30 newspaper. I thought it was a good beginning in discussing the drug usage problems. He mentions an experiment by Portugal to legalize drugs. It is working.

As a former prosecutor who spent years prosecuting primarily drug use crimes, I feel strongly that we should legalize drugs in this country. We could use the resources we now waste on our futile efforts to control drugs and instead put money into treatment programs and fighting fraud in our medical care systems.

Drug users are not necessarily cri...

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