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• ROYAL: Bumper crops of addiction 

Do you want to see a beautiful sight? Take a ride through Eastern North Carolina on country roads, avoiding the interstate highways. You'll see the most beautiful crops of tobacco, thousands of acres, likely double or triple the number of acres that this state has ever grown. . . .

This tobacco is being processed in the United States or sent overseas for processing and then sold for smokes in Russia, in India and in Middle Eastern, Asian and European countries. We now have rigid laws in the U.S. . . .

In the meantime, farmers in Afghanistan and Pakistan, and in Colombia, Mexico and other Central and South American countries, are admiring their poppy fields and marijuana fields. They harvest and ship their products to the United States. In some cases "bad guys" reportedly take much of the profit and continue their wars against the United States, resulting in death and injury to our servicemen.

Those countries, farmers and middlemen don't worry about the drug wars, the crimes their drugs promote or the illnesses and deaths these addicting drugs produce in the United States.

There is an old saying: Turnabout is fair play.

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