This is Governor Mike Huckabee with this week's comment from my corner of the Capitol. I think if more kids my age learned how to fish it would help keep them off of drugs also. Since then, schools in 25 states have adopted this successful drug prevention program. Now, the Arkansas Department of Education and the Game and Fish Commission are joining efforts to bring this exciting program to Arkansas.
Few states are better suited for such a program.
Our state offers fishing enthusiasts 600,000 acres of lakes and 9,700 miles of streams. The Natural State is the natural place to offer the Hooked on Fishing program. I am confident that, given our natural resources and unique culture, within a short period of time we will have the model drug prevention program in the nation. You may be wondering how fishing is supposed to keep kids off drugs. The organizers understood that there are many reasons why kids turn to drugs.