President Bush will stop at no length to cease drug trafficking in America. The Bush administration's latest weapons include a series of anti-drug advertisements showing how drug abuse supports terrorism.
The White House recently conducted a national survey of more than 30,000 teenagers who reported that the new ads are indeed effective. The campaign appears to work, but appearances can be deceiving.
The study involved close to 9,000 students ages 12-17. The White House study reports that 49 percent of youth in grades 6-12 who were exposed to anti-drug ads, but not specifically the one's related to terrorist activity, were \less likely to try or use drugs.""
Students were subjected to survey questions (agree or disagree), including, ""It seems like marijuana is everywhere these days,"" and ""most kids my age smoke marijuana,"" or ""the coolest kids smoke marijuana."" The latter of these questions actually had a surprising rise in agreement value from the year before.
The statistical comparisons that reveal increasing trends-trends from before the use of terrorist connected drug advertisements-were made with a study performed in a different manner, with different students and with different questions.
John Walters, Director of National Drug Control Policy, stated ""these findings [from the study] confirm that the Media Campaign is working.""
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services reported that the use of illicit drugs increased from 15.9 million to 19.5 million Americans from 2001 to 2002.
A CNN report from Kamal Kharrazi, Iran's foreign minister, who stated the United States ""is helping terrorists and bandits to work against the Islamic Republic of Iran."" He even said that the dirty drug money provides a large financial support for terrorist activity.
CNN quoted Drug Enforcement Administrator Asa Hutchinson, stated ""there is increasing intelligence information from the investigation ... that for the first time, illegal drug sales in the United States are going in part to support terrorist organizations in the Middle East.""
A member of the National Committee on Financial Services reports that Saudi Arabia gives hundreds of millions of dollars to terrorists. However, the United States continues to support the middle-east with their oil purchases.
The best part about the new anti-drug campaign is that most teens understand so much about politics and care so much about our county that they will go to any length to stop using drugs. After all, most receive their drugs from a friend who received theirs from a contact in another state, who got theirs from a brother's friend's cousin's girlfriend, who received hers directly from an al-Qaeda member.
