Parenting & Family Quote by Dennis Cardoza

“It is about time” is doing more than clearing its throat; it’s an accusation. Cardoza frames meth not as a local crime problem but as a long-ignored emergency, implying that existing policy has been reactive, fragmented, and possibly unserious. The phrase carries a political subtext: someone has been asleep at the wheel, and his camp intends to look like the adults in the room.

The rhetorical pivot is the scale shift. He starts with “a worldwide strategy,” then narrows to “our children and our communities.” That telescoping move matters: it yokes big, abstract supply-chain geopolitics to the most emotionally charged domestic constituencies. “Worldwide” suggests precursor chemicals, cross-border shipping, cartel logistics, and regulatory loopholes. “Our children” supplies the moral veto that can bulldoze civil-liberties qualms, budget objections, or skepticism about another international enforcement push.

Cardoza’s word choice also tells you what kind of meth politics he’s advocating. He emphasizes “illegal trade” and “precursor chemicals,” not treatment, housing, or harm reduction. That’s the enforcement-and-regulation lane: choke the inputs, coordinate agencies, pressure foreign partners, and cast the problem as something that can be solved upstream. It’s also a way to sidestep the messy question of demand by locating the villain elsewhere: traffickers, labs, porous systems.

Contextually, this fits the era when meth panic was peaking in American politics and “superlab” narratives helped justify tougher controls on chemicals and expanded interdiction. The intent is clarity and urgency; the subtext is permission: to escalate, to internationalize, and to treat meth as a national-security-style threat wrapped in family-values language.