Upon reading Pete Blanchard's letter to the editor ("Was drug arrest just a big show?" Jan. 16), I felt that a response was needed. I couldn't believe that Pete apparently felt the incident involving the alleged selling drugs out of Ali Abualburak's house was a "small case."

I was astonished to read how insignificant it was viewed by this young person.

Selling drugs in any form is against the law and, more important, it can affect the "customers" redirecting them from healthy and productive lives to ones of social and financial destruction. Once they become "hooked," it's now the taxpayers who will be required to finance the burden to meet all the social and medical issues associated with these customers' use of drugs.

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