Posted on 10/02/2002 12:03:54 PM PDT by MrLeRoy
"Our goal is not to cope with the drug problem, but to actively reduce substance abuse in our society," Walters said in an address to the National Treatment Accountability for Safer Communities conference.
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"We have a responsibility - as family members, employers, physicians, educators, religious leaders, neighbors, colleagues and friends - to reach out to help these people," Walters said. "We must find ways to lead them back to drug-free lives."
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That's because kids are being brought before judges and told "treatment or jail" for using pot more often than for using alcohol. Marijuana is far less addictive than alcohol---and it's even less addictive than caffeine.
Oh, I see. That's it, eh? (eye roll)
Yes. Do you have any evidence in rebuttal, or just a facial tic?
You said it should. Why should it?
You've posted in this thread as often as I have---who's "obsessed"?
I dont think anyone who is sane supports allowing children access to this things. Do you?
Of course not. The War On Some Drugs has not prevented children from getting drugs; kids can find pot more easilty than cigarettes or beer.
Does your reason for objecting to the government playing a roll in preventing kids from using these things outweight the possibility of saving just one life?
All manner of statism can be excused by "the possibility of saving just one life." That's why "think of the children" is the leftists' rallying cry.
How would FDA regulation do that? I'll bet 4 out of 5 kids don't even know what the FDA is.
Including alcohol and tobacco. Should those be banned? And why is "weak character" any of the government's business?
That's because kids are being brought before judges and told "treatment or jail" for using pot more often than for using alcohol.
The previous dodge was:
Oh, I see. That's it, eh? (eye roll)
Every single person I've known in "treatment" programs for cannabis has been forced there by a judge or by threat of criminal sanctions. I've know personally and am aquainted with many that know someone that had to take "treatment". None of them volunteered.
If you think there are, provide us with some documentation.
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