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Angie Craig: The last 30 days, 8th, 10th, 12th graders, using marijuana, up on the average of 100 percent. That is a dramatic figure…

On the recordJune 9, 1998
The last 30 days, 8th, 10th, 12th graders, using marijuana, up on the average of 100 percent. That is a dramatic figure that you speak to. Out in my State of Idaho--rural, big public land State--two major raids last year of huge magnitude, to interdict marijuana, and still it remains, by everybody's figures--and we don't have those figures--the No. 1 cash crop in this country being driven by this huge market in this country. And that is in this country. And we are not getting that, let alone getting the huge flow of cocaine and heroin coming in from the outside along with marijuana, 70 percent of the flow across our southern borders. The Senator from Georgia dealt with that with greater money for Border Patrol and interdiction. When we look at what is going on in Mexico today and their attitude in relation to this, it is a huge money machine for them, and it permeates down through their system, and it corrupts it. And it will corrupt ours, because there is the constant effort to corrupt. So that those who are of the profiteers can gain access through to the innocent, the children.
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Angie Craig
Democratic · Minnesota

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Discussing the rise in marijuana use among students and its implications for drug trafficking and corruption.

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