The Debate: Reformers and a Prohibitionist Respond to Favorable Wall Street Journal Editorial 3/10/06

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Two weeks ago, DRCNet reported that Wall Street Journal deputy editor for international affairs George Melloan had penned a strong critique of the drug war that likened it to the nation's failed attempt at prohibiting alcohol last century.

The column's appearance in the once staidly prohibitionist WSJ editorial page created a stir among the ranks of reformers, and some of them took out their pens or e-mail writers to write in. Congrats for their published letters to reformers David Padden, founder and chairman emeritus of the libertarian Heartland Institute; Law Enforcement Against Prohibition's Jack Cole; and Howard Wooldridge, also of Law Enforcement Against Prohibition.

The booby prize goes to former Office of National Drug Control Policy spokesman Bob Weiner, who was published advocating the prohibitionist viewpoint. [Ed: Weiner once hung up on me -- all I wanted him to do was answer my question! - DB]

Follow the links to read the letters from Padden, Weiner, Wooldridge and Cole online.

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