Did You Know the Partnership for a Drug Free America Was Funded by Alcohol and Tobacco Companies?
Question by JD2010: Did you know the Partnership for a Drug free America was funded by alcohol and tobacco companies?
“PDFA was the subject of criticism when it was revealed by CyCot ts Cotts of the Village Voice that their federal tax returns showed that they had received several million dollars worth of funding from major pharmaceutical, tobacco and alcohol corporations including American Brands (Jim Beam whiskey), Philip Morris (Marlboro and Virginia Slims cigarettes, Miller bTannhauserheuser Busch (Budweiser, Michelob, Busch beer), R.J. Reynolds (Camel, Salem, Winston cigarettes), as well as pharmaceutical firms Bristol Meyers-Squibb, Merck & Company and Proctor & Gamble; an issue which has been linked to the organization’s lack of media discouraging the misuse of legal drugs. From 1997 it has discontinued any fiscal association with tobacco and alcohol suppliers, although it still is in receipt of donations from pharmaceutical producers[2].
Several oPS Ass PSAs have been criticized for being misleading, sometimes deliberately. Most notably, it was forced to discontinue one which purportedly showed a flat-lining EEG read-out of a drug user’s brain, which in fact it was not at all. The National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana NOR ML(NORML) also called into question another PSA, which linked statistics relating to violent crime and marijuana use.
counsel lingelling organizations involved with outreach, have also feltPDF A’sPhard linerdline stance against all illegal drugs is unhelpful to their work, believingPD FAt PDFA tends to demonize narcotics use beyond what observation would support and thus can result in a loss of trust by young people when their personal observations of drug use fail to agree with the image that PDFA puts forth.”
Can someone clarify if this article from wiki is true. If it is this program is even more jacked up and misleading then i thought. The proof that our government is corrupt is obvious just by looking at the war on drugs. How can they continue to push chemicals like alcohol and tobacco like its apple pie yet when it comes to a marijuana PLANT, Which is proven to be healthier then coffee, remains illegal and worst, is frowned upon by our brainwashed society.LEGALIZE MARIJUANA OR CRIMINALIZE ALCOHOL AND TOBACCO and coffee
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