The statistics will make you sick: 7,000 killed (many beheaded) in Mexico last year by the drug lords. Huge percentages of the inmates in our prisons right now are there because of drugs and drug-related crimes. Those prisoners are sucking up billions of our tax dollars and resources. Mothers lose their children, families are destroyed, young and old have their brains fried.
   The money spent on a joint of marijuana, or a line of coke, crack, or meth, ends up in the hands of a drug lord in a mansion somewhere who uses it to buy guns, bribe and corrupt officials and police, and do every disgusting thing he needs to do to keep control.
   Users may think they’re having a good time, but they’re funding murder, extortion, and prostitution.
   Let America be a leader to the world. We can end the drug lords’ reign by simply stopping the use of their products, one clean person at a time. Stop a murder: Stop using drugs.
— Helen Saulsbury – Arroyo Grande
— Helen Saulsbury – Arroyo Grande
This article appears in Apr 2-9, 2009.
