Obviously, my critique of the intellectual corruptness of the public school system's policy on drugs is not intended as a call for more government control over drugs or schools . Before the anti-drug craze, children were told that masturbating will cause them to go blind. Methylphenidate also shares the abuse potential of amphetamines. It would seem not too much to expect that children compelled to attend classes in drug education as well as those compelled to take Ritalin be given a xerox copy of those two sentences. The five top selling sodas are also loaded with caffeine.
Caffeine is an addictive substance, no less than nicotine.
A drug is an inanimate object and therefore cannot be dangerous. Only people who use or misuse a drug can be dangerous, as can also people who neither use or misuse drugs. Since the end of World War II and especially since the demise of communism in the Soviet Union, cocaine has become America's favorite scapegoat. Like the Inquisition, the war against coca in Colombia, sponsored and supported by the United States, is not a metaphoric battle. The word commemorates the fact that but for the coca leaf, there would never have been a flourishing pre-European civilization in the Andes.