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King Urges More Military Involvement in Solving Drug Crisis

AUGUSTA, Maine - Maine Sen. Angus King told fellow members of the Senate Armed Services Committee today that the military needs to do more to address the nation's drug crisis.

King said part of the solution is stopping the drugs from coming into the United States in the first place. "The lack of capacity to deal with drug imports, it seems to me, is a real strategic and tactical challenge. We are suffering terribly in my home state of Maine."

Gen. Vincent Stewart, director of the Defense Intelligence Agency, said much of the drugs are coming from Mexico and the U.S. needs to work with that nation. King questioned how strongly Mexico wants to stop a business that generates a lot of cash.
 

Journalist Mal Leary spearheads Maine Public's news coverage of politics and government and is based at the State House.