Pubdate: Mon, 13 Sep 1999 Date: 09/13/1999 Source: Wall Street Journal (NY) Author: Arthur Sobey Note: The original letter was by Randi (not "Robin" Givens). It had prompted a response from Jim Heim, which has resulted in three more anti-prohibition rebuttals. Original Givens Letter: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v99.n966.a05.html Heims Letter: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v99.n956.a03.html *In criticizing the Letter by Robin Givens, Mr. Heim doesn't seem to understand that a regulated drug market would sell drugs at reasonable prices, thus negating the need for the majority of people to resort to crime to pay for drugs. That is the biggest bonus to a government-regulated drug market: exponentially lower crime. If whiskey cost $1,400 a quart today, which was its Prohibition equivalent price in 1925, people would resort to crime to use alcohol. The excellent letter by Ms. Givens--who wrote, "It's time to repeal our lunatic drug laws and install a regulated market for adult drug use that will eliminate the crime and destruction created by a useless prohibition scheme"--is as a fragile bloom wasted on a blizzard. Arthur Sobey Norfolk, Neb.