Ending drug wars would hurt gangs

Ned McCray has the wrong take on the way the drug war works (Fence Post, Aug. 4).

Drug prohibition provides the money gangs use to buy guns. Drug money is the fuel that keeps gangs in power.

Taking away their drug money by legalizing and regulating drugs for adult use will strike a blow at crime at every level.

It's worth remembering that Eliot Ness never put the bootleggers out of business. Repeal and a regulated market for adult alcohol use did that in short order.

There hasn't been a shootout over beer routes since 1933.

Ralph Givens

Daly City, Calif.