Editor: In response to Ben Edwards' letter in July 28th's Watauga Democrat, I would like to acknowledge that I do, indeed, "recognize that the offense" Martin Dwayne Miller has been charged with "is not merely producing an illegal narcotic." I am fully aware of the danger meth labs pose to our community, and yet I am still just as adamantly against this unjust prosecution as I was two weeks ago.

This prosecution undeniably undermines the intent of the N.C . legislature by misapplying a law intended to target terrorists to take aim at meth cookers.

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