"REALITY-BASED" DRUG EDUCATION PUSHED BY PRO-DRUG LEGALIZERS
On October 29, 1999, the pro-drug, pro-legalization Lindesmith Center and the San Francisco Medical Society held a "Just Say Know: New Directions in Drug Education" conference in California.
Nearly 300 educators, health professionals, drug treatment and prevention specialists, parents and students from around the world attended the event.
The conference is another step by the drug culture to increase the pressure to replace the "no-use" messages which work with "safe-use" programs in schools throughout the world. This form of "harm reduction" complains that, since kids are going to use drugs anyway, they should be taught to use drugs "responsibly" and that they can have "healthy" relationships with drugs.
Publicly, the supporters of "safe-use," "reality-based" drug education deny that they want to legalize drugs. They say that they want to "reform" drug laws and drug education. However, the policies they propose are integral components of the world-wide drug legalization movement.
The Lindesmith Center and its west-coast director, Marsha Rosenbaum, are financed by billionaire George Soros. Soros has pumped over $30 million into the drug legalization movement in the past decade. His money helped pass several state initiatives to legalize marijuana for "medicine" and helped set up a sophisticated drug culture prominence on the Internet. His support of drug "harm reduction" and the lessening of drug law enforcement and penalties is moving many nations dangerously close to legal, increased drug use.
The "no-use" drug education policy and enforcement has widely been credited with the dramatic reductions of youth drug use from 1980-1992 in America. It helped reverse the widespread youth drug problem which had been encouraged by the lenient drug policies pushed by many of the same drug culture supporters in the 1960's and 1970's.
"Safe Drug Philosophy Is a Step Backward", Sue Rusche, S.F. Chronicle, 1999