Question: Hi, Mr. LaRouche. What is your drug policy?

LaRouche: Well, I think people's minds ought to be free of the danger of drugs. People who are on drugs, in general--if you mean "recreational" drugs--they're in the process of threatening their minds.

I'll give you an example: Let's look at the President of the United States. This poor fellow, who came from an underprivileged family background, obviously, got himself on some bad habits as a young man. Maybe he didn't like the family he was born in, or whatever. But, he got into these habits. Now, if you look at him today, his mental processes are not very good, and he's the President of the United States, and we put him in there. I didn't have anything to do with putting him in there, but we, in the sense of the United States, put him in there. And here's a man who's a typical example of the danger to the nation, when somebody, who should have a mind, has destroyed that mind by the use of recreational drugs.

And, we have to recognize, also, how this came into being. This is not an accident. It was done deliberately. People think, "Well, it's fashionable. Drugs are fashionable. We have a right to drugs." They don't know how this came about: The introduction of drugs was a calculated measure, to make people stupid, so they could be more easily controlled, by being habituated to drug use, and then having--as in the case of our incumbent President, a person who shows signs of permanent brain damage, or neurological damage, as a result of, apparently, by the way he behaves--apparently because of his drug habits, of (shall we say?) "wasted youth."

So, our policy should be: Drugs today are a major threat to civilization, and they have to be recognized as such. It's not a matter of freedom of choice. There is no freedom of choice, if you're becoming part of a machine, where your weakness itself has become a danger to society, because your mind has been altered by these kind of recreational practices.

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