US CA: PUB LTE: Cure Worse Than Disease

North County Times, 22 Aug 2012 – In his Aug. 15 letter, Buddie Gran has some ugly things to say about the present administration regarding problems with guns, drugs and death at the border. He seems to feel the present administration is at fault for it all. Actually, our country’s war on drugs is the cause, which goes back to the 1920s and was accelerated into a war after Vietnam, when returning veterans were found to be using heroin and other hard-line drugs, and seemingly the whole country was high on marijuana. President Nixon was the first to declare it a war. George H.W. Bush went further. And don’t forget our present war on the poppy fields of Afghanistan.