e attendant high cost of those drugs. Regulating drug production and sales would give the government control of the situation, would instantly lower prices to a level at which criminal drug-makers could not compete, and corruption of officials would be over. This is an even more compelling argument when we consider the negative impact the corruption of public officials has on the nation in moral terms, especially on the youth of the nation. Every time a TV news program or newspaper article reports police corruption, it cannot result in anything but a further breakdown in the moral structure of the individual and of the society as a whole. After all, if cops and judges are corrupt, why should the average citizen behave morally, especially with respect to using illega
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