Ronald Reagan actually said...

We cannot afford to slacken in our efforts when nearly two-thirds of all American teenagers have used an illicit drug at least once before they finish high school.

Context

Proclamation 5537—National Drug Abuse Education and Prevention Week and National Drug Abuse Education Day, 1986

10/05/1986

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