Dennis PragerFounder, PragerU · Founder of PragerU | NYT best-selling author

The government says don’t worry about the drug epidemic...

6 Oct 2023 · 1 min

Watch on YouTube

0:59

In this brief dialogue, Speaker A questions the core message of U.S. government drug policy, suggesting it encourages safe drug use despite the ongoing loss of young lives. Speaker B confirms this interpretation and cites specific public‑health communications: San Francisco’s Department of Public Health billboard urging users to start slowly and use with a friend; New York City’s Department of Public Health website offering “safe” marijuana use tips while emphasizing that tobacco has no safe use; and the CDC’s recommendation to employ fentanyl test strips to detect fentanyl contamination in other drugs. The exchange frames these official messages as a form of harm‑reduction that normalizes drug consumption rather than discouraging it, highlighting a perceived inconsistency between public‑health rhetoric and the reality of drug‑related mortality.

Chapters

The primary message of the American government with this annual slaughter of young people is use drugs safely?
Correct. There are billboards and messages in San Francisco from the San Francisco Department of Public Health that say if you're going to use, start slowly and use with a friend. And it's a picture of young people having a good time. That same message is throughout New York City. You will find this particularly interesting. The New York City Department of Public Health has a website on marijuana, and it talks about how to use marijuana safely. One of the bullet points is, don't use it with tobacco. There is no safe use of tobacco. They never say there's no safe use of marijuana. It's tobacco that's their enemy. Dennis, the CDC itself, one last point, the CDC itself has a website that urges people to use fentanyl test strips. This is a mechanism, as they say on their website, to make sure that when you use cocaine or other drugs, it's not laced with fentanyl.