This is relevant, so bear with me.
MS>Another way could be to hold a drung information day. educating the
MS>students about the many harms and benifits of drugs and also at the same
MS>time, take the oppertunity to teach the students about Hemp. How its not
MS>just a "Get high vehicle"and that it actually contains less than 1% THC
MS>and can not act as a physco active drug. Thus demistifing Hemp to the
MS>students and giving them other reasons to wear it other than its made
MS>from the same plant that marijuana is derived!
       While I totally agree that hemp is needlessly villified, there was 
actually no real reason to breed hemp without its drug content except to 
satisfy political control freaks.  Hemp won't save the world, but it's a 
really good natural fiber with certain advantages over cotton that make it 
more attractive...as well as many other uses.
       But that's not what I really meant to say.  I don't know whether 
you've looked lately, but the mission statement of public schools no longer 
includes education as a primary goal.  It isn't true of all of them - yet - 
but school curricula is being geared to producing Politically Correct units 
rather than well-educated children.  By whatever name it goes under, it has 
been called Goals 2000, or Outcome Based Education.  Thus, if we win a 
skirmish in the hemp war here and there, we are ultimately going to lose the 
entire battle unless we also address this issue...FAST.  They're making an 
end-run around us.
       Having Drug Awareness Day, or any other program geared toward actually 
teaching solid facts would be nice, but it probably isn't going to happen.  
School officials now also have to satisfy political requirements (as is 
exactly what happened with the Midol incident), and however true it is, 
unless this Drug Awareness Day also advances the current political agenda, it 
would never be approved.  Since the dissemination of *facts* is completely 
contrary to that, I can't see how it would take place.
       I can also see how certain segments of the political scene would be 
afraid of the voucher system and the increase in the number of private 
schools, since it means that they would lose control of how information is 
distributed.  Unfortunately for them, it would also mean an increase in the 
number of educated people, and a surge in the number of 'mavericks' - people 
who are capable of making their own judgements and forming their own 
inions.
       Unless we fight this battle...unless we take every opportunity to 
collar hapless colleagues and total strangers...we will surely lose the War.  
Education is the key.  
       Sorry for rambling, but I feel strongly about this. 
Disinformation has been a large part of the War On [some] Drugs for a long 
time, and it's time it stopped.
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