Pubdate: Sun, 28 Jan 2007
Source: Columbian, The (WA)
Copyright: 2007 The Columbian Publishing Co.
Contact:  http://www.columbian.com/
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/92
Author: Janice Astengo

PUNISH MORE SEVERELY

I feel that the laws should be changed for people who are selling and 
making meth. They should be charged with first-degree murder. It is 
the same as if a person was given arsenic, it affects the same as 
poison. It destroys the lives of families. Mothers are, in essence, 
giving up on their children for a bag of meth. The grandparents and 
the foster system are having to raise these children. The mothers who 
are using meth during pregnancy are harming and killing their babies.

The people cooking meth, even a first-time offender, should be 
charged with first-degree murder and that would help end this 
production as a way of getting rich.

I have called the legislators continuously for five months. Even 
though they say they will call back, I have yet to receive one.

Janice Astengo

Vancouver
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