John Walters
John Walters
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The risks associated with marijuana have been trivialized and our kids are getting the wrong message, ... We must arm parents, teachers, community leaders and our children with the truth.
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You don't want them to choose substances of abuse as a way of dealing with stress. You want to be a good example yourself and help them learn that there are positive ways to deal with stress and growing up.
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This is the first time that we've recorded this kind of relationship between boys' and girls' drug use. In the past, boys have had higher rates of use - and significantly higher rates of use at certain times in the past.
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Addiction is a serious problem for our nation, and the efforts that individuals make against this problem benefit us all.
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Your example has not only made lives better here ... but it is no exaggeration that there are children you will never meet and families you will never hear thank you from whose lives are being saved.
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This budget is increasing by seven percent. That's outrageous.
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I know President Alvaro Uribe is committed and so is President Bush. Obviously we all want this process to go faster, and we're working toward that.
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In 2001, President Bush asked me to become Director of National Drug Control Policy, a Cabinet-rank position that coordinates federal drug programs.
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In order to drive it down further, we have to deal with today's substance abuse reality, and today's reality is, girls have been using at higher rates than boys in critical areas.
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However, if we are to continue the progress we have made in reducing drug use among young people, we must explore other ways to bring drug use down.
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That is an enormous gift to the country as well as an enormous gift to the state.
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It will not take all of the provisions exactly, but it will take many of them and make them nationwide.
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They are more likely to be influenced by peer pressure, even when they have been told and accepted that these behaviors are risky for them.
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They barely got the money out the door to recruit, train and deploy these individuals. It takes too much time for this to have had an effect, ... That's what's absurd about the White House claim.