SteamboatBillJr
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Dennis McKenna PhD said:I think that education is key. People have to come at these things from an informed place. Then they have to get real drug education and the big travesty [is current] drug education is a joke. The whole message of drug education is don't do it. Thats not going to work, people have an inherent drive. It's like the same approach to sex education, “abstinence is the only choice”. Thats fine in an ideal world but, in fact people are going to have sex, it's built into us. Tweaking the receptors we have through evolution is built into human behavior. So, the thing is to teach people. Give them real information about the risks and benefits of the substances. Teach them how to make good choices. Both in the substances that they choose to use and the circumstances in which they choose to use them. Right? If you can do that then the idea is to minimize the harm and maximize the benefit. This is not such a crazy idea.
In other words, drug education has got to teach people how to use drugs, not don't do it. [We should teach] if you choose to use substances then here's how to do it. It's just like getting a drivers license. We don't let people go out and drive without a lesson in how to do it and that's the solution. Even though cars can be dangerous and drugs can be dangerous stupidity and lack of preparation is far more dangerous, yeah.
Intellectual Gentlemen's Club: podcast #27
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