Drugs are inanimate objects and are therefore of no danger to anyone. It is a political designation that there are such things as dangerous drugs. Hitler neither drank alcohol nor smoked cigarettes. Hitler certainly did not use ceremonial drugs. The ugliest aspect of the war on drugs is that in order to control what substance a man may put in his body the state must control what ideas a man may put in his head.
Public schools have the inherent ability to exert influence.
The police who teach DARE wear their uniforms to exert influence and do not impart truthful information. In every other culture and time that was called indoctrination. That DARE has been criticized for causing more harm than good ought not surprise those who still believe in freedom and liberty with responsibility for our own drug use that those notions still entail. The law is but the tyrants will when it violates individual rights, said Jefferson. We have a natural right to drugs, all of them.