Pubdate: Tue, 05 Jul 2011
Source: Leader-Telegram (Eau Claire, WI)
Copyright: 2011 Eau Claire Press
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Author: Trudy Grill

BAD ATTITUDES

I really had to wonder about the attitude of the responses to the
recent Question of the Week about the war on drugs. One person felt
sorry for the drug abusers ruining their lives without thinking of
their families in the process. We had another opinion stating the drug
war was just an injustice towards black Americans, ruining their
lives. I'm gonna have to tell President Barack Obama that one! One
person wrote about eliminating jails. I truthfully feel jails should
be turned into treatment centers. Then Eau Claire County Board
Chairman Gregg Moore said he wants to legalize marijuana!

Doesn't it begin with our children? Isn't it making funds available
for parents to get help for their teenage children who have
addictions, instead of the courts slapping kids on their hands and
saying it's the parents' problems?

Now we're talking about serving booze in movie theaters. If they
lowered their prices, maybe they wouldn't have to. But I'll be with
the times: Have one theater for adults who have drinking problems and
can't watch a movie without a beer and have one movie theater for
families with children and teenagers.

Say, maybe drive-in theaters could sell booze for the drunks and pot
for the drug users! I sure hope the library doesn't want the same
thing. They're hurting for money too!

TRUDY GRILL

Eau Claire
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