Ice Shock! River Freezes!
Oh, great.
Another shocking revelation from another academic.
Look, drug use is skyrocketing!
Really?
Yes, we needed another University study to tell us what is common knowledge.
Glad the good professor had an income for the last two years.
Now...
How about some money for treatment?
Have I ever mentioned that we should spend some money on treatment?
4 comments:
I think there's something even more important than treatment: change the culture.
The worst thing about all this harm-reduction, legalization mentality is that the perception of harm from drugs goes down. And so more people use. And of all the factors, low perception of harm is most strongly correlated with drug use.
So when we say the real problem is HIV and HepC, kids think drugs are not that big a deal. And we wind up losing a generation to chemicals.
And marijuana (which many recent studies have proven to have a very negative health effect) needs to be marginalized as well. We need to learn to live happy lives without any form of substance abuse.
But here we make a lot of noise about how the US War On Drugs is failing, that it's just resulting in more people in prison. True, there's more people in prison. But there's actually less crime, and less drug abuse in the States since the "war" began.
Not so in Canada. Crime and drug abuse are soaring. People feel unsafe in the streets. We're losing tourism and convention business. But more importantly, we're losing our youth.
We need to get the message out that drugs are dangerous and unacceptable. We need to show kids that this is not the way to live your life.
It's working for tobacco. It should work for drugs.
I vaguely recall that you might have possibly whispered it once or twice before, though I can't be sure.
Here's a better question: What is it about the Academic mindset that prevents them to listening to wise voices of people who don't have offices on the UBC and SFU campuses?
Perhaps you could get a $200K grant from the government to research that!
Steve makes some EXCELLENT points throughout. The problem, of course, is that more than a few political and business leaders are users and I suspect that some even financially profit from the illicit poison trade.
Most academics think they're smarter than us 'ordinary' folks, or any academic disagreeing with them. Just look how long it took the medical establishment to accept that 'child-bed-fever' was actually from the doctors themselves infecting the women as they gave birth by not washing their hands after dissecting diseased cadavers. 200 years.
I guess common sense is called that because the common man (woman) has it.
David has it and it's refreshing! Personally I feel we've failed our youth. I totally agree with David on the 'home work' post.
When I was 14yrs. old, a chaplain in Switzerland had a strong anti drug message that made me decide against ever taking drugs.
But there's so much more kids don't seem to hear these days, like- life isn't fair; no, you can't have that; yes, you have to take responsibility for your action; you need to care about others.... it seems our culture doesn't prepare children for real life, for being able to tough it out.
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