1% of Money for Honest Drug Abuse Education-- Measure 80 part 20

  This part of the text of Measure 80 tells how the final 1% of the OCC profits will be spent on honest drug abuse education in public schools:

(e) One percent shall be distributed to the state’s school districts, appropriated by enrollment, and shall be continually appropriated to fund a drug education program which shall:

(I) Emphasize a citizen’s rights and duties under our social compact and to explain to students how drug abusers might injure the rights of others by failing to fulfill such duties;

(II) Persuade students to decline to consume psychoactive substances by providing them with accurate information about the threat these drugs pose to their mental and physical development; and,

(III) Persuade students that if, as adults, they choose to consume psychoactive substances, they must nevertheless responsibly fulfill all duties they owe others.

  So, then, 1% of the OCC profits will be given to school districts all across Oregon to fund an honest approach to drug abuse education in public schools.  This program is intended to:

(I) Emphasize that as members of a free society, we all have individual rights, but we also have the responsibility to respect the rights and needs of others and that abusing any drug can prevent a person from honoring that responsibility.

(II) Discourage drug use by providing accurate information that is not presented through propagandistic scare tactics, but which instead frankly presents the effects that drug use can pose to mental and physical development.

(III) Try to convince students that, when they are adults, if they decide to use psychoactive substances, they should conscientiously consider how this affects themselves and their relationships with others.