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Kids
On
Texas
Border
Using
More
Cocaine
7/16/99
The Orange County Register
(7/10) reports that high school students living along the Texas-Mexico
border are more likely to have tried cocaine than their cohorts in other
parts of the state. Overall, cocaine use by Texas secondary school
students has increased by 40% since 1988.
Al Robison of the Drug Policy
Forum of Texas told The Week Online that the troubling news can be attributed
to the drug war.
"The border is awash in drugs.
You'd have to be blind not to see that" Robison said. "Why is cocaine
so easily accessible near the border -- even more so than other parts of
the country? Why are there no enforceable age restrictions on who
can buy it? Why are we talking, once again, about drug use increasing
among teenagers in Texas despite the fact that the state incarcerates so
many people for drugs? One word. Prohibition."
The Drug Policy Forum of
Texas can be found on the web at http://www.mapinc.org/DPFT/.
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Issue #99, 7/16/99
House Subcommittee Holds Second Hearing Attacking Drug Policy Reform | UK National Health Service May Expand Heroin Prescription | Kids On Texas Border Using More Cocaine | Governor Balks as Medical Marijuana Task Force Recommendations Move Forward in California Senate | News in Brief | Media Alert: New York Premiere of "You Know What I'm Saying?" | Editorial: A Drug War Suppressant
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