Demand for drugs is real problem
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Editor,
I am writing this letter in response to all the hatred and anger that has been expressed in the last few weeks regarding closing off the reservation, charging a toll and guarding every entrance to the reservation against drug traffic.
If this has not worked on the Mexican border, what makes you think it would work here, in an area that lacks protection by local law enforcement? Yes there is a huge drug and alcohol problem in not only this community but in every other community across these United States. The problem is not the delivery but the demand. If there was no drug use here the cartel would not fight to deliver it here.
If you use meth, cocaine or pot, the drugs you are using are soaked in the blood of more than 28,000 people murdered on both sides of the Mexican border in the past two years. We have become so dependent on drugs and alcohol we don’t seem to care about the suffering it brings to each and every community.
If you use any mood-altering substance you should stop. We are being sold out by our so-called lawmakers who don’t really care how miserable our people of all colors have become and can never pass enough laws to stop the destruction these chemicals are causing. If you can’t stop, get some help. I think the delivery of 250 pounds of meth to a home in the Turtle Lake area every other week is a bit too much, don’t you?
Chuck Ripley
St. Ignatius
