Tuesday, May 09, 2006

These are our leaders

The Drug Czar's office has picked a new head for the Drug-Free Communities program

Jack W. Claypoole will serve as administrator for the Drug-Free Communities program for two years, the Office of National Drug Control Policy announced Tuesday.

National Drug Control Policy director John P. Walters said Claypoole's expertise will help enhance and aid the community coalitions' efforts throughout the country.

"Mr. Claypoole brings a wealth of knowledge to ONDCP," Walters said. "His past commitment and record of success in the state of South Carolina to reduce the disease of drug addiction will be a great help to our work at ONDCP."

Claypoole sounds like a real expert, eh? Er... uh... check out this quote from a year ago.
"Part of the challenge with Methamphetamine is it makes the users so paranoid and they're so addicted, over 90% of first time users become addicted to methamphetamine. It's an incredibly addictive drug."
Sounds like a real anti-drug go-getter. But, the thing is, Mr. Claypoole pulled that number right out of his rectum. We expect our nation's leaders to use the best data available to make policy decisions. Leave it to the Drug Czar's office to keep installing buffoons who make things up to support their ideological agenda.

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

Having trouble finding a hookup. Can one of you guys help me out?

Micah Daigle said...

Anonymous,

Yeah, no problem. Just go to any urban street corner, suburban high school, or college campus, and you should be able to find something within a few minutes. The black market is everywhere.

Just watch out, you could get mugged during the drug deal. If you're looking for a safer way of getting intoxicated, just head to the local liquor store. I hear they have security cameras.

Although, if you're under 21, you're better off going with the black market. You won't even have to show ID!

daksya said...

90% addiction rate among first-time users would make meth nearly 4 times as addictive as heroin.

Jonathan Perri said...

The scary part about this is how many Americans won't really care that he pulled such an absurd number out of his ass. "Meth is still bad mmmkay... Who cares if we don't know the truth?"
This guy isn't a leader, he's a liar.