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I was a teenager once, that's how I know.

Okay, so you know yourself. Are you really suggesting that every teenager thinks, believes, and acts the same way you did?

And how do you know this is the "least effective" method of discouraging drug use? Since you're an expert, go ahead and list the top, say, 30 methods and rank them by effectiveness.

I don't know what works. Nothing that has ever been tried has worked, so it's a little tough to find success stories.

I do know that one of the biggest mistakes we make is to try to tell kids that essentially all drugs are the same. We have to be straight with kids, not lie to them. When they find out that we're lying to them about pot, for example, all it does is make them wonder what else we might be lying about.

Alcohol is by far the most destructive chemical in more people's lives than any other, yet it remains legal and widely advertised. Pot is almost inconsequential in terms of its impact, especially in comparison to alcohol.

The other drugs, like meth or heroin or crack... I will submit... I don't know what to do there. Honestly, it is a nowinner nomatter what we do. The market is there and it will be with us forever, but I would not go so far as to recommend legalization.

All I'm trying to say is that to me this smacks of a "feel good" measure that will be just as ineffective as anything else that we've tried before. Again: The woman in the picture HAD THIS HAPPENNING TO HERSELF and still it didn't matter to her.