Benjamin Gilman: “the Clinton administration's latest drug strategy is nothing more than old wine in new bottles. By emphasizing demand at…”

“the Clinton administration's latest drug strategy is nothing more than old wine in new bottles. By emphasizing demand at the expense of supply, interdiction and eradication, while drug abuse soars among our young is a strategy destined for failure. Spending three times as much for treatment and corrections as on interdiction and international activities, including eradication is just plain wrong. The illicit drugs that are destroying our neighborhoods and youth, originate primarily overseas. We must eradicate these addictive substances at their source and interdict them before they reach our shorelines and cause addiction. We need to fight both supply and demand simultaneously. We must not shortchange one for the other. Drugs not only kill our young people, and cause violent crime, but also threaten our national security as well as the stability of democracy in many countries overseas. Let's wage a real war.”