Posted on 08/20/2005 8:05:10 AM PDT by Know your rights
Couldn't read past this. Geez, 62 percent could *say* the sun didn't rise but we all know it did.
Oh wait...they already are? Well, make them more illegal then...
Legal drugs given to even younger children is a far, far bigger problem.
How are younger children getting them now?
Hey Dude...notice the rise in illegal aliens in our school? Gimme anther hit, Dude.
Widespread psychiatric misdiagnosis - the application of terms like ADD and ADHD to bored but otherwise perfectly healthy children by teachers, counselors, etc., and distribution by the schools themselves of cocaine- and speed-like substances such as Ritalin.
And children who have been drugged since grade school no doubt often continue their habit later on once off Ritalin, with illegal counterparts.
Califano is stating what should not have to be said. Parents are the front line in the War on Drugs. The front line is weak. What kind of parenting allows teenagers to watch 3 (or more) R-rated movies per week?
I see what you're saying. I misinterpreted your post.
Canada or Texas... hmm, lemme guess who's forking over more tax dollars for illegals and their kids' education.
I have ADD and was diagnosed at 7 (12 years ago). In the past few years, I've noticed more and more kids have been diagnosed with "ADD" and to be honest it bothers me, because many of them don't really have it. It really depreciates the learning disability. ADD is not just about not paying attention. It's a processing problem.
Why is alcohol included with drugs?
Prove this. Cite a link.
Looks like conjecture to me, the phrase "no doubt often" gives it away. But it does make sense that teaching kids that taking drugs makes them feel better and makes their life happier might influence later decisions about drugs. I'm guessing that the makers of Ritalin and Adderall aren't going to be funding any research to prove or disprove the point.
Adding alcohol skews the numbers for the Drug Warriors to exaggerate the size of the problem, and thus the need for funding to combat it.
It doesn't appear to be included in the "drugs are used, kept or sold at their schools" numbers. It's included in statements like "three times likelier to try marijuana and twice as likely to drink alcohol" because it IS a drug ... and a deadlier and more addictive one than marijauna, at that.
Another scare article by the MSM. You can't control the mob unless you keep them scared of something, if not guns then drugs. If people are scared then they can be manipulated into accepting more legislation that chips away at their rights. Sooner or late we will have absolutely no rights what so ever and that time is most likely to be sooner.
Sure, let's do more of what's failed. Isn't that the definition of insanity: doing the same thing and expecting different results?
Is it that or is it this:
Most of the teens surveyed — 58 percent — said the legality of cigarettes has no effect on their decision to smoke or abstain, and 48 percent said the fact that marijuana is illegal doesn't affect whether they use or don't use the drug.
Meanwhile, the survey found teens who viewed drugs as morally wrong were significantly less likely to try them, as were those who felt their parents would be "extremely upset'' to discover drug use.
I say the latter.
"If this survey does anything, it really shouts to parents: You cannot outsource your responsibility to law enforcement or the schools,'' Califano said. "I think when parents feel as strongly about drugs in the schools as they do about asbestos in the schools, we'll start getting the drugs out of the schools.''
The left and their financial supporters, the trial lawyers, hype the phony danger of asbestos and minimize the danger of drugs. The media echo that. Is there any connection to public attitudes? Certainly. As always, the truth is the opposite of what the left espouses.
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