To the Memphis Commercial Appeal:

The story about the havoc wrought by Craig Petties was tragic, but it could have been avoided. Violence is the predictable and tragic consequence of drug prohibition. People continue to demand drugs in large quantities, drug suppliers have to resort to violence to settle disputes because they are barred from formal legal channels, and the conditions created by prohibition itself makes it more profitable to be a criminal. The same factors that produced the horrors of alcohol prohibition have also produced the horrors of drug prohibition.

Blood and violence are the price we pay for prohibition. It's a price that's far too high.