Pubdate: Thu, 15 Dec 2011
Source: Austin American-Statesman (TX)
Copyright: 2011 Austin American-Statesman
Contact: http://www.statesman.com/default/content/feedback/lettersubmit.html
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Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/32
Author: Martha J. Walker
Note: Titled by Newshawk
Referenced: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v11/n699/a03.html

DRUG WAR IS THE PROBLEM

Re: Dec. 8 Suzanne Wills commentary, "We lost the war on drugs."

This commentary is a wonderful summation of all the ills caused by 
the so-called war on drugs. I am a Christian, a retired prison 
chaplain and the mother of a son who has had a long battle with 
drugs. I can speak from very close and personal experience. It is bad 
enough when a loved one is already a victim of what he thought was 
something good, but to be treated as a criminal because of it adds 
insult to injury. Between 85 and 90 percent of Americans claim to be 
Christians. When are those people going to wise up and realize that 
the drug war is destroying our youth far more than the drugs? We have 
created the drug cartels just as Prohibition created the mafia. 
Please keep running this kind of article. Maybe bit by bit some will listen.

Martha J. Walker

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