If anyone seriously doubts the Middle Peninsula has a drug problem, take a look at page 10B of this week’s newspaper.

There, along with the land transfers, fire reports and other various and sundry parts of this week’s Public Record page, you’ll find a list of direct indictments issued last week by a grand jury in Gloucester County.

More than 20 individuals were indicted on May 2 on about 60 felony drug-related charges as part of an ongoing undercover investigation by the Tri-Rivers Drug Task Force. That’s probably just the tip of the iceberg, as far as the drug activity that’s out there today on our streets and in our neighborhoods.

We throw in this standard caution: the individuals who have been charged all will have their day in court. They are innocent until proved guilty.

The real story, to us, is the purported availability of drugs on the local market.

Read through the indictments and you’ll get an idea about what’s said to be out th...