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This morning's edition of USA Today had an article on the front page by Jim Michaels about the use of drug money to fund the Taliban.......no big surprise. It states that "More than 90 percent of the world's opium crop came from Afghanistan last year..." It seems as though our presence there has helped business.

Ironically on page 9A there is an article "U.S.- Bolivia trade deal on hold over drugs" that reports that "The U.S. is suspending a trade deal with Bolivia.............because Bolivian President Evo Morales has failed to boost anti-drug efforts."

Drug manufacturing in Mexico didn't hold up NAFTA even though production of heroin increased from 9 metric tons in 2000 to 30 metric tons in 2003 Additionally we are in the process of giving Mexico $400 million to fight drugs, even though a 2007 GAO Report on "Drug Control" indicated that U.S. assistance to Mexico has done very little to stop the drug flow into the U.S.

If all of these seemingly conflicting actions aren't enough, there is also the fact that the U.S. has spent billions on anti drug programs and has not had much success. There was an excellent article by Sam Enriguez in the LA Times, May 5, 2007 entitled "Antidrug efforts fall short" http://articles.latimes.com/2007/may/05/world/fg-cocain
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Considering the obvious failure of anti-drug programs in the U.S., and the poor condition of our national economy, should we continue to spend billions of dollars to fund them?

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