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Originally Posted by aceventura3
If you (teenager) are going to experiment with habit forming drugs....
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That's not a simple issue. Most teenagers are going to experiment with marijuana, but with a statistically lower number will be experimenting with harder drugs.
If they're likely to do it, it makes sense to prepare them to do it responsibly. If they're less likely to do it, it makes sense to explain why it's a bad idea and reinforce the statistics. Just saying "no" to everything is so far beyond the outer boarders of negligently stupid that I'm considering building a time machine to go back to the 90s and start slapping anti-drug officials. "Just say no" is actually just saying yes to ignorant naivete. Not only was it a spectacular failure, but it demonstrated to an entire generation (my generation), that the establishment didn't have anything meaningful to say on the subject. For us it was a bunch of morons that couldn't grasp our culture because they didn't even try, all they wanted was to look tough on crime and drugs.
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Originally Posted by aceventura3
At what point do you say, enough? At what point do you say teenagers simply should not be engaging in certain adult activities? It would certainly be "good" if we encouraged teens to use clean needles and show them how to test for purity and potency, because we know some of them are going to do "drugs" anyway, but I simply not ready for that type of "good".
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Even with a 10 million man dedicated police force and closed circuit cameras in every house in America, you're not even going to slow down teen sex, drinking, and light drug use. The only and best method for prevention is education. Always has been, always will be.