How wrong I feel the Washington State voters were to put the oldest, deadly drug known to humans, alcohol, into every neighborhood. Who benefits from this vote? In my opinion the liquor industry CEOs, lobbyists and investors are the only ones "laughing their way to the bank."

A year or two years from now when our health care workers and police gather statistics we know now that we will have an increase of alcohol related deaths, Fetal Alcohol Syndrome births and rage-related crimes. Alcoholism is a deadly disease. Here is to a community that educates about physical and mental health instead of ignorantly voting "to get the Washington State out of the liquor business."

Elizabeth R. Wilson

Bellingham