Kurt proposed the decriminalization of drugs and was pilloried. He wanted to start a national discussion, and he got national condemnation.

The message we want to send is: You don't come buy your drugs downtown unless you want to end up in jail.

We wouldn't be here if it weren't for psychedelic drugs. In terms of the role of psilocybin in human evolution on the grasslands of Africa, people not on drugs were behind the curve. The fact is that, in terms of human evolution, people not on psychedelics are not fully human. They've fallen to a lower state, where they're easily programmed, boundary defined, obsessed by sexual possessiveness which is transferred into fetishism and object obsession. We don't want too many citizens asking where the power and the money really goes. Informed by psychedelics, people might stop saluting. "Take your political party, your job, whatever, and shove it."

We want to send the message that if you come to downtown for drugs, you will be arrested.

The risk factors are the key reasons a person would use drugs. A kid could have all the information about drugs, but if they're not keyed in to the risk factors, they could still use. The regular school programs that incorporate drug education are not as intense as this one.

There's not a profit in developing drugs for children's cancers.