I see where the spokesmen for our government and the mainstream media are blaming the US gun owners for supplying the Mexican drug cartels with firearms. How ridiculous! To suggest I’ve sent two dozen AK-47’s, along with a box of…

Two letters in the paper Monday, one after the other, that highlighted for me how wrong headed Americans can be when it comes to crime. The writer of the first letter related the rise in crime in the city, especially…

The recent piece Bill McClellan wrote on America’s “drug war” and its effects on crime in Mexico (”Phelps story shows we should say no to drug war”, Feb. 9) had me thinking of the legalization of marijuana. Sure, if we…

Olympian Michael Phelps is in good company. The list of professional athletes caught using marijuana is long. Could it be that drug warriors have been lying about marijuana’s health impact? They’ve definitely been lying about the deterrent value of marijuana…

Does the DEA and/or your reporting not understand the concept of conflict of interest? The only reason drugs are tied to terrorists is because we have laws that create a highly profitable black market for many drugs. The DEA is…

Michael Braun, chief of operations for the Drug Enforcement Administration, stated that “the al-Qaida affiliate that carried out the Madrid train bombing funded the operation almost entirely through the sale of illicit drugs.”(”Missourian Connected War on Drugs to War on…