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