More teens are saying there are drugs in their schools, and those who have access to them are more likely to try them, said a Columbia University survey released Thursday.Twenty-eight percent of middle-school-student respondents reported that drugs are used, kept or sold at their schools, a 47 percent jump since 2002, according to the 10th annual teen survey by Columbia's National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse.
The number of high schoolers saying drugs are at their schools rose 41 percent in the last three years, to 62 percent, the survey said.
Of course, there's not necessarily a causal, one-to-one relationship here. But, you know if this apparent jump in drug use among teenagers were happening under a Democratic President, the Republican scream machine at Fox ("unfair and unbalanced"), Michelle "Malkin, and elsewhere would be doing handflips and foaming at the mouth even more than they usually do. Even better, imagine if the drug use increase story came at the same time as a disastrous "war of choice" ground on, over two years after the President declared "Mission Accomplished!"
Come to think of it (slaps forehead), that's exactly what's just happened - a spike in drug use and a disastrous, endless, unwinnable insurgency in Iraq. Now, I'm holding my breath waiting to hear Michelle Malkin and Co. bash President Bush and the Republican Congress for this, just as they would have done to President Clinton, Gore, or Kerry. Uh, guys, I'm holding my breath...hurry please. Aaaagggggggghhhhh....