As it filed its final report last week, the Senate Crime Investigating Committee issued a major new warning: if the U.S. does not do more than cluck with alarm at the spread of narcotics addiction, a whole generation of U.S. youth will face a terrifying danger. Just as big-time gangsters turned from bootlegging to gambling after repeal, the Senators predicted, the gamblers now feeling the heat of the committee's investigation will "unquestionably" turn to the tremendous profits of dope.
Attempting to cure addicts, the committee noted realistically, is a fearfully discouraging process. It...