THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT
Copyright (c) 1994, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: MONDAY, June 13, 1994 TAG: 9406090011
SECTION: FRONT PAGE: A6 EDITION: FINAL
SOURCE: Short
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The defeatist attitude which whines of society's reluctance with giving up it's vices is the same one which gives drug abusers justification for their own self-abuse.
{REST} Mr. Holland's statement that ``recreation is seen as depravity'' is an all too terrifying truth: Recreational drugs kill and maim thousands each year in America through their use and, more specifically, through the profits generated with their sale.
When children kill one another over drug deals gone awry, when promising futures are snuffed out, that is depravity, and the liberal cry ``each to his own choice'' does nothing to address or correct this terrible fact.
Hundreds of years ago China was confronted with a ravaging drug problem. The country was almost destroyed from within. Desperate, China's leaders determined that the only solution to opium trafficking was the burning of the trade ships and summary execution of the opium peddlers. America would do well to take heed of this hard-learned lesson.
KERRY G. POLLOC
Virginia Beach, June 2, 1994
by CNB