Uh, good luck with that.
That’s Karen Simon, executive director of Substance Abuse Prevention Services, the Charlotte non-profit CMS turns to conduct surveys of student drug use. The latest survey shows an uptick in drug use in CMS.
OK, great. These surveys are notoriously flakey. To wit, half of all middle schoolers — that’s 6th, 7th, and 8th graders remember — who say that they used alcohol also said they were given the alcohol by their parents. Al-rightee.
Simon takes the tired tack that kids are trying drugs because American society markets the substances to children. Hence, were it not for the nasty, bad capitalism, kids would not try drugs.
This, of course, would come as news to couple generations of Soviet youth who somehow found a way to abuse alcohol at staggering rates with the benefit of a marketing campaign telling them to do so.
Capitalism? I think the real enemy is ignorance — on several fronts.
