People: Feb. 12, 2001

AND I WILL ALWAYS...UH, HOW'S THAT GO?

Whitney Houston may not have a drug problem, but she definitely has some serious short-term-memory issues. Last November, Houston and Hawaiian prosecutors reached a plea agreement to set aside drug-possession charges stemming from an incident in which Houston was found with marijuana in her handbag by Keahole-Kona International Airport police. All Houston had to do was pay a $1,000 fine, donate $3,000 to an organization suspiciously named Big Island Wave Riders Against Drugs and submit to a substance-abuse assessment within three months. For some reason, Houston never did get that assessment. Now prosecutors have...

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