Home-court advantage. (Correspondence).

MICHAEL MASSING DID AN excellent job of pointing out the major differences between the war on drugs and the war on terrorism ["Home-Court Advantage," December 3].

Afghanistan's brutal Taliban regime profits from the heroin trade because of drug prohibition, not in spite of it. Attempts to limit supply while demand remains constant only increase the profitability of drug trafficking. Here in the United States, the drug war distorts market forces to the degree that an easily grown weed like marijuana is literally worth its weight in gold. In South America, the various ...

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