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# Posted 7:15 AM by Anonymous

THE PARTNERSHIP FOR A DRUG-FREE AMERICA--the organization responsible to all those silly commercials from the 1980s comparing your brain on drugs to a fried egg--is at it again. In an op-ed in the Washington Post, Jim Burke, chairman of the Partnership, agues against cutting federal aid for this "educational" campaign. The problem, Burke argues, is that the Partnership "has fallen into a bureaucratic trap, and only strong legislative action can get it out." But the problem with the program--the reason it's been called a flop--has nothing to do with bureaucracy. It's that it doesn't make any sense.

Over the years, the Partnership has run what is essentially a propaganda campaign, complete with scare tactics and threats, meant to frighten America's youth away from drug use. But anyone can see the obvious exaggerations of the ads--clearly marijuana and heroin don't have the same effect on your brain. Obviously smoking a joint doesn't drag you down the road of crack whores and perpetual junkies.

Under the guise of "education," the Partnership has used millions of dollars in federal funds to propagate myths of drug use--the same myths that maintain our repressive drug laws. And who is really surprised that studies indicate that the ads have made little-to-no impact on the rates of drug use?

If the purpose of the Partnership is really to decrease teen drug use as it claims (and let's assume their intentions are pure for the moment), it is completely mistaken over the best way to accomplish its goals. Is it really possible that they believe that the reason people do drugs is that they don't know that it can be dangerous? How, then, would they explain teen smoking? Instead of running these ridiculous propaganda organizations, if the government really wants to reduce teen drug use--the kind of use that is actually dangerous--they should put the money into effective treatment programs, not bombard their children with exaggerated lies that aren't fooling anyone.

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We should help our troubled teens who are into illegal drugs and alcohol addiction let us send them to centers before it's too late.
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