Essentially, if you don't smoke cigarettes, you won't smoke marijuana, ... And if you don't smoke marijuana, use inhalants or abuse alcohol as an adolescent, you're not going to have an addictive problem later on in life.

The nation working together has made substantial progress in confronting illegal drug abuse and drug trafficking,

Serious challenges remain. Heroin abuse is climbing back, and many kids think heroin is safe because it can now be sorted or smoked,

Through substance abuse treatment we address a profound crisis in America, reducing the associated crime, stop the stress on our health system and the drain on tax revenues by restoring productivity, and return chronic addicts to sobriety.

So at the end of the day, our number 1 goal, our top priority, is to motivate American youngsters to reject the abuse of illegal drugs, tobacco and alcohol. All three of them are illegal behaviors.

We have 1.8 million Americans behind bars today at Local, State and Federal level. In the federal system, which has doubled in the last ten years, over 110,000 people behind bars in the Federal system, probably two-thirds are there for drug related reason.