Open Letter To Huntington Mayor Steve Williams
800 Fifth Avenue
P.O. Box 1659
Huntington, WV 25701
Don’t
waste the opportunity 27 heroin overdoses in 4 hours have given you. Seize this
opportunity to use your nationwide “platform” to call for the end of drug
prohibition and to make Huntington the “proof-of-concept” for how to do it.
The
end of alcohol prohibition provides us with the model for how to do it. Every
time you see somebody go into Rite Aid or CVS and peacefully buy a bottle of
whiskey without anyone getting gunned down by a competitor and without anyone
being arrested, you see the model work. You can rid Huntington of the Detroit
drug dealers immediately if you ask Washington to let you test the end of drug
prohibition, following the alcohol model.
Drug
manufacturing and sales would be regulated and taxed. Legally sold and
distributed heroin would not be cut with fentanyl or rat poison so it would be
as “safe” as heroin can be. Opana, meth, cocaine and marijuana could be
regulated, licensed and taxed the same way.
Don’t
waste the nationwide megaphone these drug overdoses have handed you.
Stop sending your police officers on a futile, daily fool's errand they "can't arrest their way out of."
You can't hire enough police officers to arrest your way out of this mess.
We can't build enough prisons to jail our way out of this mess.
As long as drug dealers have a monopoly on drugs Huntington will have Detroit drug dealers.
Follow
the alcohol post-prohibition model. Then choose your higher office.
Joseph
Higginbotham
3501
MacCorkle Ave SE
#348
Charleston,
WV 25304-1419
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