Attorney General Brian E. Frosh said Thursday that his office will join counterparts in the Northeast to share information and jointly prosecute drug traffickers ("Maryland joins task force to combat heroin traffic, deaths," Feb. 13).
If interdiction and criminalization could solve the problem of drug addiction, it would have done so long ago. Mr. Frosh will waste our tax dollars, throw people in prison, spy on and harass mostly innocent people driving on the highway, and when the heroin "epidemic" wanes just like the "crack" epidemic, and the "Gin Craze" did 350 years ago, he will take credit for it.
This is about politicians' ambitions, not about preventing drug addiction or helping addicts.
Decriminalization, harm reduction and treatment are what's needed, not politicians exploiting a crisis and making it worse.
Rob Baker, Ambler, Pa.