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Mary Ruwart:Clearly, drug prohibition is directed at a relatively minor problem. Indeed, drug prohibition actually kills more people than the drugs themselves! We pay a high price for the failure of drug prohibition. Since 1989, the War on Drugs has killed up to 14 times as many people each year as the drugs themselves. These deaths include AIDS spread by contaminated needles, overdose deaths caused by black-market side effects, and homicides resulting from turf fighting and other drug-related murders. Like alcohol Prohibition, drug prohibition is a cure much worse than the disease.