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Letter: Dare to mislead

Published 23 February 2002

From Myron Von Hollingsworth

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.

Fort Worth, Texas

Issue no. 2331 published 23 February 2002

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