The full name of the bill is the Vital Interdiction of Criminal Terrorist Organizations Act of 2003. In a nutshell, the bill reinvents drug offenses as terrorism crimes. The ho-hum label of "controlled substance offense" will get a glossy makeover as many routine drug crimes become elevated into crimes of "Narcoterrorism." The bill was drafted by worker bees in the office of Sen. Orrin Hatch (R.-UT.)

..... The Victory Act links drug crimes to terrorism, redesignating them as crimes of "narco-terrorism" and upping the already draconian penalties.

I don't doubt that some of the money earned from Afghan poppy farming finds its way into the hands of terrorists. But let's not paint with too broad a brush without something more. And let's be vigilant about keeping terror laws and drug laws separate, except in such instances where the two clearly are linked. We already have laws that penalize terrorism and laws that penalize illicit drug activity. There is no need to combine them.