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Tom Wolf: “I think Congress ought to know that the number of high school kids that are using drugs is probably much higher than we…”

On the recordJune 27, 1996
I think Congress ought to know that the number of high school kids that are using drugs is probably much higher than we actually think. We had a drug conference in my district this past weekend with General McCafferey and a number of other people. In some of the schools, the use of drugs is up to 60 and 65 percent. Drugs are running rampant in this country. I do not know what the gentleman said is the best idea, but I will give it every consideration. I think the Congress, though, in dealing with this issue, ought to also look at the possibility of setting up strike forces which will go down into South America, into Bolivia, into Colombia, and into Peru, and seize the leaders of these drug cartels and bring them back to the United States, and put them on trial.
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Tom Wolf
Democratic · Pennsylvania

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Addressing drug use among high school students and proposing actions against drug cartels.

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