Crack Cocaine - Why you Should Leave it Alone

Lest anyone think drugs only affect the young or the poor, here's a story that was in the news in Glasgow, Scotland the other day about Crack Cocaine reaching into the affluent "respectable" levels of society.

"Flamboyant Philip Mangan was once a director of five businesses, lived in a £750,000 house and exported valuables around the world.

"But last week he admitted blowing more than £100,000 of his fortune on crack cocaine and sleazy parties with hookers."

"Mangan, 59, said: "I took cocaine for 15 years, spending hundreds of pounds a week. I was out of control. It got to the stage I couldn't run my business."

One of the things my church does is massive distribution of drug education materials, particularly to youth. We have found that when young people get the facts about drugs it arms them against the peer pressure they get to experiment with them.

Here's something from the Scientology anti-drug web site describing the program.

"For more than two decades, the Church of Scientology’s worldwide drug education campaign has provided the truth about drugs to hundreds of millions across the globe.

"With tens of thousands of public awareness concerts and athletic activities, and thousands of newspaper, television and radio messages reaching millions—combined with the distribution of more than 100 million drug education booklets, fliers, posters and literature—this is the largest anti-drug campaign in the world.

"The war against drugs begins with education.

"Join the “Say No to Drugs, Say Yes to Life” campaign and help build drug-free communities. Take the pledge and start a club in your community.