[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 145 (1999), Part 18]
[House]
[Page 26107]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]



                         WAR ON DRUGS IS A JOKE

  (Mr. TRAFICANT asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. TRAFICANT. Mr. Speaker, the governor of New Mexico says, and I 
quote, ``America has lost the war on drugs. It is time to legalize 
drugs.'' Think about it. Cocaine and heroin, legal. Eleven- and 12-
year-olds strung out.
  This is a joke. While our drug czar worries about Olympic athletes, 
our borders are wide open, literally tons of heroin and cocaine 
flooding our streets, and now politicians are calling for legalization 
of narcotics.
  Beam me up. This is not a war on drugs; this is absolute surrender. I 
yield back all the catchy, get-tough, rah-rah, gung-ho slogans of 
America's great charade on drugs.

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