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From: piety@hplabsb.UUCP (Bob Piety)
Newsgroups: net.med,talk.politics.misc
Subject: Re: Drug Abuse - True Problem or Media Hype?
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Date: Mon, 29-Sep-86 11:15:29 EDT
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Summary: Education is the ONLY answer!


All this BS about escalating drug wars is ridiculous!  We will gradually lose
our civil rights and freedoms from these "drug wars", yet the drug problem 
will continue and, perhaps, escalate from all the attention!

As long as people WANT drugs, they will get them!  Consider incarcerated
criminals-- they get drugs in prison!!!!  They get them because they want them
and are willing to pay.

Now look around at the people you know who DON'T use drugs.  WHY don't they
use them?  Because they can't get them?  Because they can't afford them?
NO!!!  Most people don't use drugs because they understand the risks of taking
them.

Drugs will no longer be a problem when enough people CHOOSE, ON THEIR OWN
FREE WILL, NOT TO USE DRUGS.  They key to successful dealing with the drug
problem is EDUCATION!  Plain old truth about the risks must be known-- not
"Reefer-Madness"-type hype.  Credibilty must be established by the 
authorities.  Kids must be made to BELIEVE the risks, through credible
sources, so that they turn down drugs if they are offered them.

Lastly, ask yourselves why YOU don't use drugs.  Why didn't YOU accept
undoubted offers of drugs when you were younger.  Why don't YOU have a drug
problem?  Now.... help pass the same insights to others so thet they make
their own choices.  Don't get hysterical and promote laws that further
chip away at our declining liberties.

Bob