Twenty-nine million Americans, many of them parents, smoke marijuana at least once a year. Far more have used it in their youth. In each and every one of my drug education workshops with parents of teenagers, I get the following question: "What should I tell my kids about my own...

As President Bush declares April 12 "National D.A.R.E. Day," ideology and emotion once again trump science and truth.

I first heard of Drug Abuse Resistance Education when my daughter, Annie, was in fifth grade. She came home from school one day announcing, "Mom, you'll be glad to know that I...