There has to be strict compliance with safety concerns, |
There's been a real reluctance to engage with a problem that affects a lot of American families and a lot of communities. |
These people are serious, they're scared, they've spent a huge amount of money. They're spending a higher per capita percentage basis of their budget on counter-drug activities than the United States is. |
This is not medicine, |
This money is aimed at helping those nations' economies, judicial systems, police and armed forces, in hopes of re-establishing the rule of law, |
Through substance abuse treatment we address a profound crisis in America, reducing the associated crime, stop the stress on our health system and the drain on tax revenues by restoring productivity, and return chronic addicts to sobriety. |
We are making available to the producers, directors, writers -- the creative community -- the resources, the understanding that the National Institute of Drug Abuse gets out of $600 million a year of taxpayer dollars studying this issue. |
We are now seeing a clear trend, ... Teen drug use is down significantly and rapidly for two straight years. |
We believe their senior leadership are honest. |
We came out of it with a firm commitment to continue to uphold federal law, to capture data on what starts to go wrong because of these two propositions, and we are going to attempt to educate other state authorities on what actually happened. |
We first began to see increased drug use among this age group several years ago when they were teens, ... Sadly, now that this age group has established drug use patterns, they and our society will be dealing with the harms associated with increased drug use -- disease, overdoses, health care costs, crime and the like -- for years to come, as they grow older. |
We have 1.8 million Americans behind bars today at Local, State and Federal level. In the federal system, which has doubled in the last ten years, over 110,000 people behind bars in the Federal system, probably two-thirds are there for drug related reason. |
We have made the drug criminals afraid. We will now make them disappear, ... and this is only beginning of it. |
We have never done something like this with this modest a force at such a distance from its bases. |
We see this as a 'legalization of drugs' issue, not a medical issue. |