Walters was joined at the NYSE by representatives of business, labor and the human resource communities who have agreed to share youth drug prevention information with workers. Participants included Chris Boyll, President, Cellular One Group; Bob Chase, President, National Education Association; Greg TenEyck, Director of Public Affairs, Eastern Division, Safeway, Inc.; David Forman, Senior Vice President, Society for Human Resource Management; Randy Smith, Senior Executive Vice President for Corporate Marketing, Westfield Inc., and Michael Castine, Managing Partner, TMP Worldwide.

Walters capped the announcement by ringing the NYSE Closing Bell(TM) at 4:00 p.m.

"The NYSE is proud to partner with ONDCP and John Walters in support of programs that help keep kids drug-free," said NYSE Chairman and CEO Dick Grasso.

Human resource professionals surveyed by the Media Campaign strongly agree that employers have a bottom-line interest in contributing to drug prevention efforts. David Forman, Senior Vice President of the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) explained, "Workplace practices that are designed to help employees cope more effectively with family and life issues can be beneficial to an organization's bottom line. These progressive benefits are preventative in nature and can be instrumental in helping employees feel more in control, thereby reducing stress and absenteeism and increasing productivity." SHRM is the world's largest human resource management association and provides education and information services to more than 165,000 professional and student members throughout the world.

Since the Internet is an increasingly critical internal communications tool, the Media Campaign expanded its existing Web site for parents to include a new feature designed for employers and human resource professionals: http://www.theantidrug.com/atwork

The @Work Web site offers employee newsletter articles, email parenting tips, posters and brochures on drug prevention formatted for easy adaptation and customization by employers. In addition, employers can call 1-800-788-2800 to obtain and distribute free materials like "Keeping Your Kids Drug-Free: A How-To Guide for Parents and Caregivers," a parenting brochure developed with the American Academy of Pediatrics and the National PTA.

Companies who have already committed to the @Work program include BlueCross BlueShield, Capital One, DKNY, New York Stock Exchange, Halliburton, Mills Malls, Safeway Inc., Synapse, TMP Worldwide, Warner Reprise, and Western Wireless/ Cellular One Group. The Media Campaign's corporate participation program seeks business involvement through in-kind donations of goods and communications services and through contributions to underwrite advertising, programs and materials.

"The Media Campaign already involves the nation's premier civic, government, volunteer, public health, youth-serving, multicultural and media organizations," said Director Walters. "Partnering with leading corporations and business organizations is a natural extension that will increase our effectiveness in reaching youth and families in innovative ways."

In 1998, with the bipartisan support of Congress and the President, ONDCP created the National Youth Anti-Drug Media Campaign, an effort designed to educate and empower youth to reject illicit drugs. Counting on an unprecedented blend of public and private partnerships, non-profit community service organizations, volunteerism, and youth-to-youth communications, the Campaign is designed to reach Americans of diverse backgrounds wherever they live, learn, work, play and practice their faith.

Note: Businesses Can Help Parents and Protect the Bottom Line.

Complete Title: Drug Czar Calls on Nation's Employers to Help Keep Kids Drug-Free

Source: White House Office of National Drug Control Policy

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Source: PRNewswire
Published: February 19, 2002
Copyright: 1996-2002 PR Newswire
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Just trying to keep facts straight, and I hope I've caused no hard feelings.

"From the cradle to the grave, why must (they) all behave like children, lost, lonely children."- Joe South

They do not just deny the voting citizens, but they deny our Father.

Christ God, gave us cannabis and put cannabinoid (THC) receptor sites in our brains since the beginning. Those who prohibit that connection, may well be the true terrorist...to Christ God and the Holy Spirit of Truth.

Poor old Khrushchev. The KGB was probably already planning his forced retirement in Yalta by then.

There's something to be said for the inevitability of modern social control schemes to go out of control.

I guess what links us with them is that we are a modern society, and a modern society puts faith in modern methods of social control.

The so-called conservatives in this modern society are abandoning traditional conservative ways of thinking and joining the modern social engineering project that they once accused liberals of belonging to.

Maybe it's inevitable that people with a mind for a modern social engineering project would invent Communist methods of social control even without ever having read Marx or Engels or Lenin.

It's only possible to weld this steel link between job, home and government in a society that has lost appreciation for the concept of a private life.

But then it was Trotsky who said,

Anyone who desires a private life has done badly to be born in the 20th century.

What's really a tremendous shock is the extent to which religious people in America have joined into this idea of annihilating the private life with sets of rigid and inescapable state controls on private behavior.

It is interesting to note that Lenin had also planned for the eventual awakening of dissatisfaction amongst his duped tools by stating that they would (and actually were, by Stalin) be amongst the first to be 'liquidated' after their usefulness had come to an end.

I don't know what support if any the families of people like Alberto Sepulveda, Patrick Dorismond, Esequiel Hernandez, Vicky and Charity Bowers and all those others murdered by adrenaline tripping cops in "Oops!-wrong-house!" no-knock drug raids or military actions against our own citizens gave the War on Drugs. Probably just the passing, casual, unthinking, Pavlovian support expected from all sheeple.

I am quite sure the families of those people were very bewildered; this is only supposed to be happening to the bad people, the druggies. Not to the good people...like them. But their family members are dead because of that nonchalant acquiescence. And, mark my words; they will not be the last.

(Interesting, isn't it, that Joycie has never commented upon the cost of that 'collateral damage' of her precious 'Children's Crusade'? Particularly in the Bowers case; a seventh month old infant will never grow up and know the joys of being drug-free because the butchers she supports killed a little baby. 'All for the children', of course; it's always for the children.)

Killing children in order to save them. Destroying rights in order to protect them. That's the insanity we are up against. The evidence of what they are doing is as plain as the nose on their faces...but they refuse to learn from history. The problem is, we who can still wind up paying for their mistakes.

So, you'll forgive me if I am less than charitable with these morons. I've suffered from their depredations too long ever to be so inclined to forgive them.

I predict Joyce Nalepka might someday be one of the most outspoken and convincing advocates for safe, legal cannabis. By encouraging her to write more often, we stand a chance of getting her to read and understand the truth.

Nobody asked, just my opinion...

Read this article on legal anti-depressants:
http://latimes.com/news/printedition/front/la-022002depress.story?coll=la%2Dhome%2Dtodays%2Dtimes

It is quite obvious Mr. Walters really has nothing to do whatsoever. If I were him I would find a job that proves his worth and not his worthlessness.

The critical mass has formed.

The tears shed by people like Joyce and Mr. Walters look just like those from a crocodile.

They need to go home, be with their families and find out what it is like to be real people. They are unreal.

May we please use your place of employment so that we can spend your tax dollars propagandizing your employees on your company's time so that they will be willing to spend more of your tax dollars on our expensive and ineffective federal drug bureaucracy so that we can keep our own highly paid jobs?

Thank you, The federal drug bureaucracy

Now notice from the description above that this whole program consists of NOTHING but propaganda: brochures, tips, email newsletters, a web site...

Not an increase in pay, better health insurance coverage for their kids, meaningful mental health coverage for kids, increased family leave, flex time at the job, and greater job security from layoffs caused by fraudulent corporate business models anbd ravaged retirement and college funds from corporate employee stock scams.

It's insulting to basic human intelligence to suggest that working parents can use a bunch of overpriced propaganda force fed to them on the job to feel more in control of their lives and reduce stress.

But .... that is how the Soviet Union operated, and now it is becoming how this country operates too.

No more private life, the political and the professional and the private are going to be welded together in one giant media-corporate-government cabal of propagandistic social engineering.

Workplace practices that are designed to help employees cope more effectively with family and life issues can be beneficial to an organization's bottom line. These progressive benefits are preventative in nature and can be instrumental in helping employees feel more in control, thereby reducing stress and absenteeism and increasing productivity.

This could be a corporate rewite of a Conmmunist Party directive from the sixties about the role of the Communist Party in leading the workers towards raising proper Socialist families.

It sounds all so lovely and who could disagree with such loveliness, but what it really means is using the workplace to propagate more lies about and hatred towards adult marijuana users by promoting the idea that adult marijuana users present a major threat to their children.

That's why they aren't signing any partnerships to tell parents how to keep their kids alcohol free.

Or how to keep their kids anorexia free or date rape free.

And by the way -- since when did it become okay for your employer to tell you how to raise your kids?

Like I said, we are the new Soviet Union.