Pubdate: Mon, 26 Sep 2016
Source: Calgary Sun, The (CN AB)
Copyright: 2016 The Calgary Sun
Contact: http://www.calgarysun.com/letter-to-editor
Website: http://www.calgarysun.com/
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/67
Author: Noel Hershfield
Page: 14
Cited: Drug Free World http://www.drugfreeworld.org/
Note: Parenthetical remark by the Sun editor.

TEACH KIDS ABOUT DRUGS

According to A Drug Free World, an organization that employs education
in our schools to attempt to stop drug experimentation amongst our
youth, it is estimated that 25% of children are involved with drug
use. As we all know, in the last year, over 400 young people have died
as a result of drug use. Our emergency departments are increasingly
attending young people with side effects due to drugs, including
marijuana. When the government legalizes this powerful psychoactive
drug, it is going to get worse. Why they are legalizing this agent is
a mystery. We must start teaching our young in our schools about the
true facts about drugs, both legal and illegal.

Noel Hershfield FRCP

Clinical Professor, U of C

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(Back in the day, drug awareness lessons in school were terrifying.)
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