"Government schools are the primary cause of mind-altering drug addiction in America. They are also the primary initial distribution centers. The pubic schools have created the present-oriented defeatist mindset that characterizes the drug addict. This mindset involves loss of faith in binding moral law, loss of faith in God, loss of faith in the possibility of redemption, loss of faith in the day of final judgment, and loss of faith in personal responsibility. Lose these, and you also lose faith in life’s meaning. Drugs are an easy sell to people who have abandoned faith in life’s meaning. To win the war on drugs we must win the war on tax-funded education."
Gary North, Institute of Christian Economics, 23 October 2002 email Newsletter.