KENTUCKY'S FRUITLESS DRUG BATTLE HAMPERS EDUCATION

So the state is cutting funding for childhood development. School
services. School nutrition. Minority education.

Didn't state government just announce that millions of dollars were
being added to the drug enforcement effort? Where are our priorities?
It is more important to give millions to snitches and undercover
informants than to teachers?

The insane war on drugs has sapped millions upon millions of dollars,
yet no results are measured or expected. The drug war is an expensive
habit of a police-state government. If that wasn't bad enough, now the
government is making ephedra illegal to create a new group of
criminals. Then the government can imprison them and seize their
homes, cars and bank accounts. America is the world's largest
imprisoner of its own people.

Let's use some common sense and try to educate people first. We cannot
imprison our way out of poverty and unemployment.

Tina Hoffman

Lexington