From: [b--r--e] at [rcf.rsmas.miami.edu] (Charlie Byrne)
Newsgroups: talk.politics.drugs
Subject: Free Drug Booklet
Date: 20 Jul 1993 11:13:37 GMT

Glossy 60 page booklet available from your tax dollars:

"Growing Up Drug Free - A Parent's Guide to Prevention"
US Department of Education
Just call 1-800-624-0100 *or* write
Growing Up Drug Free, Pueblo, Colorado, 81009
or Nat. Clearinghouse for Alc & Drug info, PO Box 2345 Rockville Md 20852

Here's part of the marijuana section:

CANNIBAS

All forms of cannibas have negative physical and mental effects. Several
regularly observed physical effects of cannibas are a substantial increase in
the heart rate, blooshot eyes, a dry mouth and throat, and increased appetite.

Use of cannibas may impair or reduce short-term memory and compehension, alter
sense of time, amd reduce ability to perform tasks requiring concentration and
coordination, such as driving a car. Motivation and cognition may be altered,
making the aquisition of new information difficult. Marijuana can also produce
paranoia and psychosis.

Because users often inhale the unfiltered smoke deeply and then hold it in
their lungs as long as possible, marijuana is damaging to the lungs and
pulmonary system. Marijuana smoke contains more cancer-causing agents than
tobacco smoke. Long-term users of cannibas may develop psychological dependence
and require more of the drug to get the same effect. The drug can become the
center of their lives.

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Well, at least they also have sections on alcohol and tobacco. The general
message of the book though is to never, ever give your kids one minute of
freedom, cause that is when they're likely to get hooked. 
Quoting: "...limit 'free time', which often leads to experimentation with
alcohol and other drugs".

-Charlie