Dana Rohrabacher: “I do have some disagreements with the gentleman as to the best way to attack this problem, but I certainly agree that we…”

“I do have some disagreements with the gentleman as to the best way to attack this problem, but I certainly agree that we should make sure that young people understand just how serious the problem is for them and that there would be no greater method of telling them and putting a stamp of disapproval on it than making sure they have to have a drug test. But the gentleman referred to on the chart there some of the decrease in drug use that we have had over the last 2 years, and I think that a lot of that can be attributed also to a stamp of disapproval that the young people understand that our society has given just in the last few years. In the last administration, I think that it could be accurately said that people who were out fighting this problem were faced by an administration that trivialized the use of drugs as to what kind of threat it was when the President talked about not inhaling and such. And some of us who have had pretty wild youths in our time looked at that and said this man is not being serious, and the young people looked at the President and said this is not being serious, and our administration's seriousness on this has had a lot to do with the reduction in the use of drugs.”