Bush Visit to Drug Site

During Prohibition I was a bartender in a speak-easy which dispensed alcoholic beverages to the public illegally. It was the “in thing” to gain entrance to the speak-easy with a “Joe sent me” phrase etc. People who were not crazy about consuming liquor came anyhow just to taste forbidden fruits.

Along came repeal of the 18th Amendment and, lo and behold, the speak-easy disappeared as well as the bootlegger and the gangsters who were involved in illegal booze. The profit was gone, and instead of the government spending a fortune to enforce Prohibition, it now received revenue for the sale of legal alcoholic beverages.

The same situation now exists with the illegal sale of narcotics. The sale of narcotics should be made legal, and if you take the profit out of the enterprise you will stop the gang wars and loss of life of innocent citizens as well as law enforcement personnel. Yes, we will have a certain amount of people who will overdose on dope but I would rather lose them than the innocent victims of this tragedy. The people who overdose as a result of their habit are expendable and are no great loss to anybody except themselves.

Legalize narcotics now for eventually that will be the final solution.

EDWARD ZWERN

Sepulveda