| yawkaw3 |
| (Pooh-Bah) |
| 05/20/04 07:37 AM |
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 Re: Kids get drugs on internet !
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Quote:
Nationwide, President Bush's goal of cutting drug use 10 percent in his first two years in office has been met or surpassed in many areas, Tandy said.
"As much as the legalizers out there would like everyone to believe that we're losing the drug war, we have - not only here but across this country - met President Bush's first step drug-reduction goals," she said.
It's not a matter of "losing the war," it's a matter of having already lost it.
If they have won by 10%, they have still lost by 90%.
And these "figures" - ecstasy use down 54%? Where did that come from? Pot down 11%? I don't see why half of all ecstasy users would suddenly stop. I hope they're not attributing it to the idiotic D.A.R.E program or those "the anti-drug" ads- I have a feeling people who already were using ecstasy wouldn't stop just from seeing an ad they already saw in a different format 10 years ago. Today's 20-year-olds went through the D.A.R.E program- half of them deciding completely out of the blue- and realizing how great our government is and what a great parent figure the DEA is- to stop doesn't make sense to me.
And aside from all that- the first part of the article in this post was just talking about how prescription drug abuse is such a huge problem. Now suddenly the DEA is winning the drug war? If drug abusers have cut down on heroin but started using OxyContin, that is hardly a "win" for them.
-yawkaw
