Pubdate: Thu, 19 Jun 2014
Source: Chico News & Review, The (CA)
Copyright: 2014 Chico Community Publishing, Inc.
Contact:  http://www.newsreview.com/chico/
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Author: Kay Hoskin

WHERE HEROIN COMES FROM

Heroin has made a comeback-oddly enough that has happened since we 
have been in Afghanistan. Why? Is our law enforcement that 
ineffective? Are our legislators paying more attention to 
re-elections, pay raises and lobbyists? Is there no enforceable plan 
to stop the terrible destruction caused by the use of this drug? 
Where is the "War on Drugs"? Do more "people in power" need to lose 
loved ones to this?

Where does heroin come from? How is it that the media never tells us 
that 90 percent or more of the heroin found on our streets and in the 
arms of our dead young people comes from Afghanistan! The very place 
where our soldiers are dying to keep Afghans free! No wonder the 
tribal leaders of Afghanistan want us to stay there and die there 
while they continue to profit from the export of this deadly drug.

To believe the federal government doesn't know about heroin coming 
from Afghanistan is ludicrous. They've had boots on the ground and 
eyes in the sky for over 10 years. This tells me that the American 
people-soldiers and civilians-are collateral damage, again, to a 
foreign policy gone astray.

Kay Hoskin

Bellevue, Penn.
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