HOW DARE THEY

To the editor:

Nearly every North American study, including government studies, indicate
even the revamped model of DARE (Stepping Up Anti-Drug Message, Feb. 20,
Capital News), is a failure and may be doing more harm than good. DARE
teaches that medical use of cannabis is a hoax.

It is commendable to help youth resist drugs, alcohol, cannabis, coffee and
cigarettes until they are older and responsible for their choices, but
caging responsible adult cannabis users is not the correct way to do it. As
an obedient Christian I resist government teaching my children the plant
cannabis is evil when we are taught God created all the seed bearing plants
saying they are all good on literally the very first page of the Bible.

Money used for DARE should be applied toward programs that work and have
support from citizens.

Stan White

Dillon, Colorado