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Veteran Cops Against the Drug War |
| Section: CURRENT ISSUES / POINT-COUNTERPOINT--SHOULD ILLICIT DRUGS BE LEGALIZED? |
| Author: Peter Gorman |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 1/1/2006 |
| Size: 5,884 Words, 34,359 Characters |
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Howard Woolridge is outside of Utica, New York, heading east on horseback on a beautiful late summer day. He's wearing a T-shirt with the slogan "Cops Say Legalize Drugs. Ask Me Why." For the last 3,000 miles, he's been switching off between his two horses, Misty and Sam. But the T-shirt slogan had stayed the same.
The rangy, good-looking guy is also talking on the cell phone to a reporter back in North Texas. But he interrupts that conversation to speak to someone who pulls up next to him in a car. "That's right -- cops say legalize," he tells the newcomer in a deep voice. "Why? Because if we do, we just might be able to keep drugs out of the hands of your 14-year-old."
"Right on!" the motorist shouts, and drives off.
Woolridge is not a lunatic and he's not been out in the sun to...
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...t my kids doing those drugs!"
"Neither do I," he told her. "They're no good. But that doesn't keep them from being sold on the corner in this very neighborhood, does it? I'd legalize them and get them into pharmacies. Keep your kids from being shot while walking down the street."
There was a pause and then she laughed. "I never thought of it that way before. You're making me think now."
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