Most of it is lies to scare children away from doing drugs. Kids know this, too, and they don't respect it. If it was a more honest program and the people educating talked about their experiences, maybe that would help. But the way they should handle it is calmly. Your parents should be able to talk to you about it.
Smoking weed is like riding down a hill with no brakes.
It took me going to the hospital on a drug overdose to realize that. Sharon Cox is editor of Class Acts, a magazine published for young readers in the Tuesday Star-Telegram.