Hugs Not Drugs is about parents educating their children against drugs (http://www.hugsnotdrugs.com/index.php/history); please explain the resemblance you see.
“Hugs, Not Drugs”
and
“Hugs, Not Bullets”
Resemblance? Pretty obvious idiocy, isn’t it?
So that's all the resemblance you were implying?
Or am I just *cynical*, after all those feel-good/do-nothing/spend-a-billion-$/no-results worthless programs?
Please provide evidence that billions were spent on “Hugs, Not Drugs.” Based on the link I provided it appears to be a fully voluntary and privately-funded initiative.
The “Drugs” idiocy sure didn’t work
Not even among those who chose to participate?
Add-up the “fully voluntary and privately-funded initiative costs”, if you can get a true accounting of it. Doubt you can. I’d bet the cost per ‘hugged’ child is astronomical. Not saying they weren’t worth it.
Read first 3 paragraphs of this article; then multiply by 1,000s:
Next, get some true, accurate drug-use stats - not just gov’t-doctored numbers to look good for public consumption - and it’ll be clear that drug-alcohol use is up. Way up.