I am writing in response to Dr. Amesh Adalja’s Dec. 16 letter, “U.S. drug strategies wrong.”
In that letter he makes reference to the San Francisco Chronicle’s Debra J. Saunders’ column of Dec. 9 (“The war on drugs: Prohibition’s second act”) and a Dec. 7 letter from James Matson.
There is nothing wrong with religious dogma when it teaches right from wrong. It is only when it says to kill or to do harm to someone who doesn’t believe in the same dogma, whether it be Catholic, Protestant, Shiite, Sunni, Hindu, Judaism, Buddha or atheist.
When it comes to choice, it should be nature that decides. If nature decides to abort an unborn baby, so be it. If nature passes out diseases to people who won’t believe in abstinence, so be it.
Man created alcohol, illegal drugs and prescription drugs. People who use them to get high or drunk are socially sick people. They make themselves physically and mentally sick by using them. If they use too much, they die. So be it.
Laws are to teach us right from wrong. What should be the legal age for alcohol — 18, 15, 13? Should we close drugstores and let people buy drugs without a prescription?
It’s been said that only the good die young. That’s not true. So do those who use dope or who are drunks.
Danny W. Shultz
East Brady