DRUG WAR CONNECTIONS

Re: "Drug crackdown could cripple terrorists," March 14.

I read with growing disbelief this article regarding drug trafficking
aiding terrorists.

The Bush administration is allocating $10 million to run an ad campaign
aimed at drug users. I don't know any crackheads or heroin users
personally, but I think the likelihood of them looking at ads telling them
their drug use is aiding terrorists and for them to be concerned enough to
stop using is ludicrous. This $10 million would probably be better spent on
providing rehabilitation services than ad campaigns.

The article indicated that 70 percent of the world's opium poppy crop is
grown in Afghanistan and it is weeks away from harvest. Our troops
seemingly have bombed every area in Afghanistan, why not the poppy fields?
That would definitely put a crimp in the drug traffic to the U.S. If we
want to help the Afghan people, why not assist them in growing food crops
rather than relying on poppy fields as their main source of income?

Maxine Luster, Carrollton