Bob Sneidar wrote:
> I wish they would make a documentary in the US detailing the horrors
> the drug market in the "civilized" world actually causes in other
> countries, and then show it in all the public schools. I think a lot,
> although not all, kids just getting into smoking pot or thinking
> about other drugs would not, if they knew that their demand for these
> things caused this much harm to others. I can remember the first time
> I because aware of it, and thought back on my early days when I was a
> pot head. The thing that took me back was that I had never given any
> thought to it. I had never connected the dots. We need to connect the
> dots for our children when they are young.

The true gateway drug is booze, and booze has a big lobby.

We will never have a reason-based discussion of substance abuse in our culture as long as our media is owned by a small number of companies, some of whom make booze and all of whom earn big bucks from booze advertising.

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 Richard Gaskin
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