Sense and nonsense

This is interesting. "A small group of popular Korean celebrities will gather in Seoul on Thursday to call for the legalization of marijuana."

Meanwhile, "joined by the head of the National Medical Association and the owner of a black-owned advertising firm, John Walters, director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy, announced yesterday a new ad campaign that encourages black parents to take stronger steps to stop their children from experimenting with marijuana."

Once again, our drug czar will be spending millions of our tax dollars on a faith-based PR effort to convince black parents that simply telling their kids not to take drugs will stop them from experimenting. Walters doesn't like the reality-based thinking currently embraced by the parents that acknowledges no matter what you do, the kids are going to use them.

And of course the whole campaign ignores the fact that the kids are free to do drugs because chances are, their fathers are in jail for non-violent drug offenses themselves and the mothers are out there working three part time jobs to make enough money to put food on the table. It would do more good if they simply granted the PR budget to the parents directly so they could take time off to be home with their kids.