Drug Prohibition

Re “Drug Cartel May Die, Drug Trade Lives On,” editorial, Aug. 8:

In one sentence, you state that market forces alone guarantee that the Cali cartel will be replaced. In the next sentence, you state that the expensive, dangerous and frustrating effort to control the supply of drugs should not be relaxed. Such reasoning, in words a Vulcan might use, is highly illogical. Drug prohibition, like alcohol prohibition, is a failed social policy.

STAN WARFORD

Malibu