Pubdate: Fri, 25 Jan 2008 Source: Honolulu Advertiser (HI) Copyright: 2008 The Honolulu Advertiser, a division of Gannett Co. Inc. Contact: http://www.honoluluadvertiser.com/ Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/195 Author: Charlie Colburn TOUGHER DRUG LAWS ARE NEEDED IMMEDIATELY How many more lives do we have to see become wasted due to drugs? Horrific displays of people under the influence of drugs are becoming far too commonplace across our state. It's been long reported that 80 percent of crime is due to the illegal drug trade and use. Drug education has been the answer of our liberal lawmakers for the past 30 years, but it is not working. We need tougher laws and we need more prisons. Drugs are costing our nation billions, and even more serious is the continued loss of generations of our children who experiment and later become drug addicts and criminals. Let's implement a 10-year program where those who sell get locked away for life and those who use spend time in jail. Our young children need mandatory drug education beginning in first grade until they graduate from high school. Let them see their fathers, brothers and other family members and neighbors locked away. Let them understand drugs are illegal and will not be tolerated in our society. We must see drugs as they are - evil - and we must eliminate this evil. Charlie Colburn Honolulu - --- MAP posted-by: Larry Seguin