Letter to the Editor

Editor’s note: The following letter has appeared on the internet, where it has been viewed by many readers. Local resident Tom Schafer felt that it would be appropriate for readers of The Odessa Record.

The other day, someone at a store in our town read that a methamphetamine lab had been found in an old farmhouse in the adjoining county and he asked me a rhetorical question, “Why didn’t we have a drug problem when you and I were growing up?”

I replied, I had a drug problem when I was young; I was drug to church on Sunday morning. I was drug to church for weddings and funerals. I was drug to f...