DARE TO MISLEAD

Anyone who has read the research on DARE knows what a sham it is-and what a
very expensive sham (2 February, p 44). DARE's attempts to "educate" our
children about drugs can have the indirect effect of killing them. In
effect, when you teach kids that cannabis is to be lumped with heroin,
crack, methamphetamine and all the other dangerous, addictive and deadly
substances (which cannabis has been proven not to be) the murder begins.

Sooner or later many (most?) of those kids will experiment with cannabis.
They will learn the truth that it is relatively harmless-and much less
harmful, dangerous, addictive and deadly than the legal drugs alcohol and
tobacco. They will conclude that they were lied to about heroin and
everything else. We now have record numbers of teen heroin deaths.

Myron Von Hollingsworth,

Fort Worth, Texas