Essentially, if you don't smoke cigarettes, you won't smoke marijuana, ... And if you don't smoke marijuana, use inhalants or abuse alcohol as an adolescent, you're not going to have an addictive problem later on in life. |
Essentially, if you don't smoke cigarettes, you won't smoke marijuana. And if you don't smoke marijuana, use inhalants or abuse alcohol as an adolescent, you're not going to have an addictive problem later on in life. |
everyone understands that a team effort is needed to confront the drug crisis. |
extremely disappointed that corruption may have reached such a level in Mexico. |
has a reputation of impeccable integrity. |
He's not listening to drug treatment experts and law enforcement authorities and educators in his own state about the devastation that these drugs do on Americans. |
I'm a professor of national security studies, and I know a lot more about fighting than Rumsfeld does. |
I'm always concerned a bit about creative hypocrisy, because it's $49 billion of U.S. money on drugs that is acting as an engine drawing 60 percent of our own cocaine, marijuana, heroin coming through Mexico or adjoining Pacific or Caribbean waters. |
If you want to fight a war on drugs, sit down at your own kitchen table and talk to your own children. |
In the report, we show that youth drug use dropped 13 percent last year, overall cocaine use is down ... and drug crime and drug-related murders are dropping, |
in the stage of meltdown and within 24 months will be coming apart. |
It's a massive threat, not to the United States primarily, but to Europe and the former Soviet Union states and indeed to the region. |
It's a national issue now. It's not just a California or an Arizona issue. We know that these proponents of drug legalization are promoting it in other states, too. |
Now starts the hard part of actually doing it. |
Now, having said that, 6% of our Nation regularly uses drugs, about 12 million people. They are seven out of ten employed. They're in the workplace. They're not under a bridge someplace. They're working for you and me. And they're terrible employees. They cause a third of all industrial accidents. They cause just a disproportionate amount of work absenteeism. |