DRUG CULTURE ALL AROUND US IN TODAY'S WORLD

"The culture has changed from soft drugs to hard drugs," said an
unnamed mother in the Nov. 17 story, Eskasoni Residents March to Show
Frustration with Drug Problem. "Kids aren't even going to the soft
drugs; they're hitting the pills first."

Adults have failed to keep kids away from drugs, and keep drugs away
from kids. Your kids learned drug use from you.

Our whole culture promotes and glamourizes drugs of all kinds.
Everything about North American culture is saturated with sex, fun,
thrills, wealth acquisition, rule breaking, law scoffing, authority
resisting, danger, and power.

We advertise booze and junk food during The Simpsons, beer, fast cars
and Viagra during the hockey game, and pharmaceuticals of all kind
every afternoon. Junk food kills many times more people each year than
all illegal drugs combined! So does booze.

Then we tell kids drugs are bad. Do you honestly think they don't
notice the wild hypocrisy in this? A ruse by any other name....

A federally licensed medical marijuana user:

Russell Barth

Nepean, Ont.

Patients Against Ignorance and Discrimination on Cannabis (PAIDOC)
www.paidoc.org