National drug strategy 'too moral'

National drug strategy 'too moral':

"The federal government's drug education strategy for schools is too moral and risks being irrelevant to young people experimenting with alcohol and illicit substances, a leading researcher says"

Maybe our own community attitude is too immoral? I don't think you would ask kids to take drugs or say it's okay? Would you actually adopt the stance of telling people to gamble, to over eat, to smoke...now, we don't seem to have a problem telling people not to smoke. We have made it "illegal" with out making it illegal. The do not smoke message doesn't take any reality into account. So, our stance ought to be don't. Competing with media images is another issue, true, but I think that is more than balanced out with the fact our young people are dead because of drugs or they have been executed and are facing death penalties because of drugs or long overseas jail sentences. So the media images balance themselves. If kids see that all as irrelevant then it is like the speeding and driving into tree, the drunk driving and the killing themselves and others in cars...if they will not listen they are going to have to continue with their field work. All we can do as responsible adults is say - don't do this to yourselves and try and persuade them it's not a good idea. I should imagine a lot of them now have dead friends. Kids are not silly. They behave in a silly fashion because we have given them no boundaries. There is nothing glamourous or exciting about someone who is drug dependant or whose life centres on drugs and maybe that's what the kids now need to hear. I think the whole point is we get it out there and we talk openly about it and we all discuss our views and the facts. Then everyone is better informed and people can talk freely.