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lion to combat our national drug problem. But even that is not enough. Our nation has an expensive drug habit that requires expensive treatment to control. We need to do more and I am ready to commit more of our nation’s resources to fight this war head on.
A few days ago, I cosponsored a new piece of legislation that would target an additional $2.4 billion over the President’s budget request in fiscal 1989 to our anti-drug effort. This legislation — the Omnibus Anti-Drug Abuse Act of 1988 — addresses both the demand and supply side of the narcotics problem. I won’t go into all of the provisions in this comprehensive bill, but as a follow-on to the 1986 anti-drug effort, I think it is a good one and hits the drug problem on many fronts.
On the local level, this legislation resurrects the State and Local Narcotics Control Grant Program by providing $1.5 billion over three years, including $250 million next year, to help state and local law enforcement agencies attack the drug problem where it is most acute — at the local level.
On the international front, the legislation provides $600 million over three years for a new international economic incentive grant program to encourage drug-source countries, particularly Latin America, to eradicate 40 percent of their illicit drug crops over a three-year period. Additionally, more money would go to drug education and treatment programs.
Now, you and I know that Con
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