A Modest Proposal

Since the beginning of the 19th century, America has had to deal with the on going problem of drugs. We’re surrounded by them everyday, whether we realize it, or not. The evening news is filled with stories of “crack heads” killing each other as well innocent standers- by in a fiendish attempt to find drugs or money to buy drugs. Perhaps you may recall reading the morning paper only to find that another teen …

…need to sneek around street corners at night to snort cocaine, or to inject heroine. Soon, everyone will be smoking weed instead of raising champagne glasses to ring in the new year. Soon, doctors will be prescribing PCP and angel dust to patients for depression instead of paxil and prozac. Oh, and pregnant women need not worry about their children being barre babies or crack babies, because... we’ll all be crack heads. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography**