Sen. Barbara Mikulski (D-MD) on National Youth Anti-Drug Campaign
Monday, February 23rd, 2009 at 7:51 pm | By: Radical Russ
Thanks for contacting me to express your views on the National Youth Anti-Drug Media campaign run through the Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP). It’s nice to hear from you.
I understand that some evaluation studies have shown that the National Youth Anti-Drug Media campaign has not accomplished its intended goal.The Office of National Drug Control Policy Reauthorization Act of 2006 (P.L. 109-469) expires at the end of FY2010. I will keep your views in mind as Congress reviews this program.
As a member of the Appropriations Committee, I have worked hard to support effective drug prevention and treatment programs as well as the federal law enforcement agencies responsible for drug enforcement. I support programs designed to reduce drug, alcohol and tobacco use, and violence through education and prevention activities in our nation’s schools. Programs like this have been effective in reducing the amount of drugs on our streets and in the hands of our youth. Yet I agree that oversight of these programs is needed to ensure wise use of taxpayer dollars.
Again, thanks for contacting me. Please let me know if I can be of help to you in the future.
Hi Russ & everyone else. I’m a newbie to the blog but have been listening to the Daily Stash podcast for a couple of months now and really like it.
Does anyone know where I can find a resolution template to introduce a resolution to my state Democratic Party calling for Cannabis legalization? I don’t want ‘de-criminalization’ or medical marijuna only; I want the full deal.
If anyone could point me in the right direction, it would be greatly appreciated. Our meeting is in about 2 months and I need to introduce it at least 30 days before. but I want to introduce everyone on our mailing list to the debate before it’s introduced so I can publicly urge people to contact their local leaders and shoot down any anti-legalization arguments well before it’s introduced formally at our meeting.
If Ms. Mikulski truly supports programs designed to reduce drug use then she MUST support licensing reputable businesses to legally produce and sell marijuana to adults.
This policy will eliminate drug dealers from our schools and communities just as alcohol legalization eliminated bootleggers and moonshiners seventy-five years ago. Without drug dealers on our streets, and with all legal supply restricted to adults, the availability and subsequent consumption of marijuana by minors will plummet.
The American people have endured seventy years of marijuana prohibition. Seventy years of cost, seventy years of raids, seventy years of drug dealers. We know this policy is a failure. Arresting, confiscating and imprisoning has been as ineffective as body counts were in Vietnam.
We, the parents of America, implore her to end the prohibition and so end the drug dealers, cartels, violence and deaths that this policy creates. Our children deserve a better future than what prohibition can give!