drug busts were disrupting the supply routes through Maryland—and this meant there would be fewer gangsters, fewer addicts, less violence, and less misery in the world. This is one of the most important facts about Leigh, and one that it would be easy for somebody like me—with the politics that I have—to ignore. Leigh’s support for the drug war was an act of compassion. She genuinely believed that she was making the world a better place by protecting people from drugs and drug gangs.
