The United States has defined terrorism under the Federal criminal code. 18 U.S.C. §2331[25] defines terrorism as:

…activities that involve violent… or life-threatening acts… that are a violation of the criminal laws of the United States or of any State and… appear to be intended (i) to intimidate or coerce a civilian population; (ii) to influence the policy of a government by intimidation or coercion; or (iii) to affect the conduct of a government by mass destruction, assassination, or kidnapping…."

Why isn't he even more worried about teenage alcohol use? The research is very clear, Mr. Kerlikowske, that teenage (and adult) alcohol use is far, far more likely to kill and maim than teenage cannabis use.
We have another drug czar who refuses to act in a serious manner when the subject is marijuana or marijuana vs. alcohol, so it is impossible to take him seriously. This subject has been waiting more than 70 years for sober discussion but all Kerlikowske is interested in doing is clowning around.
Even if he is right about it's effect on some adolescents, what does that have to do with whether adults have the right to use it instead of alcohol? It you're fine with alcohol being legal for adults in spite of it's effects on adolescents, you have no moral right to not allow adults users of the safer drug the same liberty. The hypocrisy of such selective prohibition is staggering, and so are the practical consequences of forcing people to use alcohol over weed. Forcing pregnant women + mean and reckless drunks to use alcohol to get high, even if they prefer weed, how stupid can you get?

A rose is a rose by any other name...until you call it a shit-blossom. You've got to stop calling old Gil "the Drug Czar". Given the nature of his job and the laws which underpin it, his correct title should be "Drug Fuhrer". Then people might just come to grips with the fact that drug prohibition is a major violation of human rights (i.e., the pusuit of happiness) and that only Nazis think it's a good idea. The "War on Drugs" and the "War on Terrorism" are never-ending wars being used by the fascists to destroy freedom and democracy. If you don't call them Nazis, people will never understand just how much their Nazi ideas, intentions and actions STINK!

What the hell is going on? The present policy does nothing to slow or stop the flow of drugs. Prohibition has never worked and never will, thereby leaving the drug trade firmly in the hands of CRIMINALS. Why Gil, does the United States of America, maintain an ongoing criminal enterprise? Are you, and law enforcement, so blind or incompetant that you don't see this? Or are you and the rest of the gestapo making so damn much money that you are willing to continue to support an ongoing criminal enterprise? I hear the BS spilling out of your mouth, but if you want to protect the children, why continue with a program that supports "street dealers", who don't care one bit, who buys as long as they get their huge "black" market profits. So in closing I would like to say, stop the stupidity, do the right thing, legalize what is currenty going on, and truly protect our kids.

Dr Drew must be aware of the fact that over 4,000 young people die from alcohol overdose while there have been zero fatalities attributed to smoking marijuana. Dr. Drew joins a long list of treatment experts who ignore the harmful facts of alcohol while harping on pot.

I don't think one can ignore the influence the alcohol industry has on the broadcasters when they spend over a billion dollars in advertising. The alcohol industry wants the focus of governemnt to center on pot and give their product a free pass. Health organizations failed to even put warning lables on booze to advise not to drink the product fast or that could lead to some health problems. That failure to warn the public is a direct link to the many deaths from AOD. Inspite of the dangers associated with alcohol, I don't think Dr Drew will be vocal about them. He would rather not rock the boat and just preach the evils of pot to parents.

It really isn't difficult to understand why particular 'doctors' say one thing and others say another. One might inquire which pharm corp. is feathering Dr Drew's crumbling nest. Are we to believe that Dr Drew has never used Cannabis (as an adult or teen), and that he actually believes what he said? Let's ask Adam Corrolla...

Another thing....I think Nazi is not accurately analagous. Let's use bolshevism, or fascism, marxism, leninism. Bolshevism/ communism spawned pharmaceuticals. Nonetheless, it is apparent to us true citizens that the communist manifesto that began with the OCTOPUS has catalyzed the present situation. One needs only to research to understand why it is that pills are so popular today. It was all diagramed in the early twentieth century. The bolshevicks have succeeded in their psy-ops. All doctors are endorsed by pharmaceuticals. Look at the increases in Adderall prescriptions in children. Are we to think attention deficit is a pandemic as well? Many choose not to be, however, all doctors are targeted as salesman for the technicolored dream drugs that so many are unfortunately attached to. Way to miss the entire point, Dr Drew! You have lost all credibility you might have built up prior to this. And fuck the Drug Czar. You are not fooling anyone. No cannabis? ...but lets just give every kid in america amphetamine legally. Health is obviously of no concern of these doctors and czars. Ask a first grade teacher how her students behave these days. Ask them what these kids talk about...it will shock the hell out of anyone...even you , Dr. Tool.

“I think that the biggest influence on young people is often the parents or the caregiver in the house. If they stress the risks and dangers of drugs, regardless of what the discussion in the media might be about marijuana being legalized, they will have more influence than what happens on a news report that night.”—Gil Kerlikowske

One of the biggest failures in U.S. public drug policy is drug enforcement’s inability to separate itself from its hopelessly archaic delusions about human behavior.

In his best selling book, Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature,  Harvard author and evolutionary psychologist Steven Pinker discusses how 50-percent of our human nature is genetically wired into our brains, while 45-percent of all behavior originates from imitating our peers, leaving only 5-percent of human conduct to be influenced by parents and authority figures.

Like other prohibs, ONDCP Director Kerlikowske assumes the authority figure can make all the difference in kids’ choices about drug use.  This assumption has caused the focus of anti-drug propaganda to influence parents to fear illicit drugs and to police their children’s drug use.  Seeing that nearly 42-percent of all Americans to date have tried marijuana, this approach has obviously failed.

Then there is Dr. Drew, who believes he can convince everyone to just stop thinking for themselves or educating themselves about drugs.  Does Dr. Drew believe the next teenager who tries drugs should refuse to distinguish between marijuana and heroin, thereby choosing heroin instead of the much safer cannabis high?  When these choices happen, they're almost always the result of some hysterical prohib treating every illegal drug as a separate but equal demon.

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People have hated Dr. Drew from Loveline for many years, about many things, for instance accusing him of either gross negligence or deliberate lying about LSD, when he once told thousands of kids listening in to his show that the drug was a “neurotoxin.” The implications of a licensed medical doctor saying this is simply stunning.

His majesty the czar says that the research on the effects of pot on adolescents is "very clear." I say that ANY research on the effects of ANY illegal drug are fatally flawed by drug warriors' refusal to separate the effects of drug use from the effects of drug-law enforcement.

I hope I never understand the mentality of people who would rather see their children in prison than allowed to choose what substances to put into their own bodies; they're probably the same people who allow their kids to run around unsupervised with money in their pockets without teaching them right from wrong.

"The marijuana today has a very high content of THC, which is the psychoactive component in marijuana, and it can have very serious effects on adolescents. The research on this is very clear." --ONDCP/Kerlikowske

This has been repeatedly refuted by pointing out that cannabis users titrate: more THC means fewer tokes (and less of the carbon monoxide and other smoking-related hazards). But without waiting for the drugfuehrer to admit this benefit of high quality skunkweed, activists should strike at the heart of the problem: HOT BURNING OVERDOSE $IGARETTES.

Since 1913 (introduction of "Camel" brand) and before, the nicotine addiction industry has placed its strategic emphasis on promoting the highly profitable cigarette (usually about 700-mg. net weight per cigarette today) loaded with special "cured" mild tobaccoes (Lucky Strike ad: "It's Toasted!") and hundreds of unidentified addi(c)tives (like cough-suppressants) to make it possible for users to casually inhale huge overdoses of nicotine without suffering a give-away coughing fit (like happens when you do that with riefer).

Blindly imitating this brutal model (the "joint") has made cannabis users look stupid and played into the hands of prohibitionists. It would be more logical (and CONSERVATIVE) to serve 25-mg. single tokes in a one-hitter, with a long flexible drawtube giving the smoke more distance to cool down before getting to your trachea. PROBLEM: "If the cops find that they'll confiscate my car." Any rational, health-protective equipment for ingesting heated cannabis vapors gets you in trouble with the cigarette-tax-funded constabulary, so it's "safer" to do what "everybody" does and roll an easy-to-hide hot-burning joint instead! That plays into the hands of the tobackgo industry which wants kids who investigate smoking to get used to the Normalcy of the $igarette from whence cometh their profit margin.

Now that Gov. Sch. has invited the "debate", it is time to promote a nationally necessary handcraft industry: manufacture millions of screened single-toke "semivaporizer" utensils (like out of a quarter-inch socket wrench or hose nipple etc. with drawtube) and go abroad like Mormons and Witnesses proselytizing, converting hot-burning-overdose victims-- tobacco, cannabis or whatever herb-- to single-toke sobriety. Thereby the issues can be so connected that the advantage of one-toke herb combined with one-toke utensils reducing smoking hazards will be broadly accepted; the number #1 genocide conspiracy in the history of the planet, hot-burning overdose cigarettes, will disappear along with its 6-million-deaths-per-year holocaust (American Cancer Society estimate for 2010); and leading cannabis legalization advocates will win Nobel prize money which can be used to help medical cannabis patients at a VA hospital near you.