INVESTIGATORS DUE PRAISE FOR SUCCESS IN WAR ON DRUGS

The war on drugs continues. The Regional Controlled Substance
Apprehension Program has scored recent victories in the war with
several recent drug busts including the discovery of 10 pounds of
cocaine after a traffic stop.

Agencies involved in the investigation included U.S. Customs, Alcohol,
Tobacco, and Firearms, Immigration, the Fannin County Sheriff's
Office, and police departments in Trenton, Honey Grove, and Bonham.

Cooperation is working.

The local drug bust comes the same week a 13-month international
investigation led to the arrests of more than 200 people in a heroin
smuggling ring.

Detractors would say the money being spent to fund drug apprehension
operations is wasted. Some would even say drugs should be legalized.

Laws do not make people good. This much is true. But laws can
sometimes make people behave.

We have drugs that are illegal because we have judged they are bad. We
have drugs that are not illegal because we have judged that they need
not be.

Using the same logic as those who argue drugs should be legalized,
should we also make murder legal too?

Will that make people stop murdering?

As long as this country chooses to decide what is right and what is
wrong and makes laws to influence the behavior of evil people, then we
must place funding into the enforcement of those laws.

If there is no fight to enforce laws, why have laws?

Programs that work to stop the influx of illegal drugs, both locally,
nationally, and internationally, should be praised and supported.