The War on Drugs

I am sitting here watching a press conference with John Walters, the White House Drug Counselor. A journalist just stood up and asked him the following question:

"60% of college students nationwide rely on federal financial aid to attend college. I know that when a college student is caught using drugs they are normally expelled from school...never to return. Do you think this is an effective policy for achieving the overall goal of lower drug use?"

A BRILLIANT QUESTION.

And John Walters response: "Well, we don't kick kids out of school. I think what we have tried to focus on is prevention programs. Trying to get the schools to stop the drug use before it happens."

JESUS H. CHRISTMAS. I swear that to be a member of this administration you are required to take Rhetoric 101. Does this response sound at all familiar to you? Oh maybe something like 'to prevent kids from having sex we try to emphasize prevention (a.k.a. ABSTINENCE?).

This administration needs to realize it is operating in the 21st century. This is not 1825!

All I can say is wow.

-JG