Who killed that 5-year-old Mexican child recently kidnapped by drug dealers and murdered by injecting acid into him because his poor parents couldn't come up with a $500 ransom?

You did, if you use, buy or sell illegal drugs, you're as much a murderer as anyone in the vicious drug cartels.

You, not the dealers, should be the main target of the drug wars because you make all the rest possible. If there wasn't a market for illegal drugs, there wouldn't be a drug trade.

You make it thrive and prosper. You are the life's blood of this monster without which it would die.

I don't care if you smoke marijuana or zonk out on hard drugs, you're the one who causes the drug trade to exist. That little boy's blood is on your hands, and that also goes for all the zonkedout celebs, performers and "creative" people who make drugs appear like an acceptable lifestyle.

Public attitudes need to change to beat drugs. People who use them should be stigmatized and shunned by society for their behavior, not pandered to, imitated and admired.

Don't ever ever take illegal drugs again without first imagining the agony of that little boy's death writhing in front of you.

You made it happen. How many more innocent people do you intend to murder? Miriam Jaffe Thousand Oaks