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James Traficant: “every major city in America is experiencing booming heroin sales. Kids with eyes watering and noses running are running…”

On the recordMarch 7, 2001
every major city in America is experiencing booming heroin sales. Kids with eyes watering and noses running are running the streets and dangerous. Now, if that is not enough to scare the welcome wagon, our borders are wide open. Wide open big time. While Congress is building halfway houses, narcoterrorists are coming across the border and treating it like a speed bump. Beam me up. I yield back the fact that we are wasting billions and billions of dollars on a failed narcotics policy that could provide for a prescription drug program for every senior in America. Wise up Congress and let us really do something about narcotics.
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James Traficant
Ohio
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Editor's note · Context

Addressing the issue of drug policy and its impact on communities during a floor speech.

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