Anti-Drug Activist Speakers at Austin City Council Meetings Are Urgently Needed

As any law-abiding observer of the city of Austin's current drug crisis will acknowledge, there is an urgent need for local anti-drug activists to politely ask each and every duly elected official of the City Government of Austin in Austin, Texas, to please answer each of the following types of questions:

(1) When (if ever) did you most recently consume any quantity of the illicit drug marijuana, whether in the form of a marijuana brownie or as an illicit substance that you yourself smoked or inhaled or otherwise ingested?

(2) When (if ever) did you most recently consume any quantity of any illicit drug OTHER than marijuana?

(3) What prompted you to refrain from consuming any marijuana or any other illicit drug throughout each of the two respective time periods since then?

(4) Do you recall the circumstances in which you made your decision to never again consume ANY quantity of marijuana or ANY quantity of any other illicit drug?

(5) What advice would you offer to our city's youths in regard to marijuana or any other illicit drug?

(6) In your role as a duly elected City of Austin official, which initiatives have you pursued that were designed to help reduce the production, distribution, sale, possession, and consumption of marijuana or some other illicit drug in Austin, Texas.

(7) Do you believe that the City of Austin currently offers adequate incentives for individuals who are addicted to illicit drugs to themselves choose to enroll in and successfully complete a drug-treatment program?

(8) How would you compare the caliber of the drug-treatment programs in Austin proper that primarily serve low-income or middle-income persons with the overall level of excellence of drug-treatment programs in Dallas, Houston, San Antonio, and Fort Worth, Texas, that each primarily serve low-income or middle-income persons.

(9) When an Austin resident or visitor to Austin dies from drug-related violence in our capital city along the Colorado River, do you believe that the City Government of Austin is partly blameworthy for that act of violence?

(10) Have any of your own friends' or relatives' lives been ruined or significantly harmed because of their own or someone else's addiction to marijuana or some other illicit drug?

(11) As a duly elected City of Austin official, does it alarm you that many Texans assume---whether rightly or wrongly---that the City of Austin and the Austin Police Department are apparently somewhat lax in their level of enforcement of the law in regard to marijuana and other illicit-drug activities in Austin, Texas.

(12) Do you believe that the Austin Police Department and the City Manager's Office in Austin, Texas, provide you with adequate informational reports each year about the scope of the illicit-drug crisis in Austin, Texas? For instance, has the Austin Police Department provided you with official estimates on the total number of illicit drug dealers currently operating inside the city limits of Austin, Texas?

(12) Do you believe that the City Government of Austin in Austin, Texas, and our Travis County Government should follow the lead of Bexar County, Texas, by establishing a Greater Austin Council on Drug Abuse, that holds comparable authority to the San Antonio Council on Alcohol and Drug Abuse, which effectively coordinates drug-prevention and anti-drug activities in that South Texas metro area.

(13) Would you like to see the City of Austin compile annual or semiannual or monthly statistics that state or estimate the total number of deaths in Austin, Texas, that year, six-month period, or one-month period in which marijuana or some other illicit drug reportedly or allegedly played a role in that death?

(14) Do you believe that the purchase of illicit drugs by Austin residents in a sinister manner provides financial support for terrorist groups in this and other nations? Do you also believe that ALL residents of Austin, Texas, should help fight violent forms of terrorism, including in the Middle East, by themselves refusing to consume any quantity of marijuana or any other illicit drug?

(15) In the period since you assumed elective office as a City Official of the City of Austin in Austin, Texas, on HOW MANY TOTAL OCCASIONS have you contacted the Austin Police Department or some other law-enforcement agency, such as the Federal Bureau of Investigation or the Texas Department of Public Safety or the Texas Rangers Division of the Texas Department of Public Safety, to yourself report evidence you DIRECTLY observed that an Austin resident, regardless of whether that individual was a government official at the time, had allegedly violated the law through illicit drug activities on his or her part?

(16) Of the various members of the Austin City Council of today, which current Austin City Council member (if anyone) do you most suspect of having allegedly or possibly consumed ANY quantity of marijuana or any other illicit drug at any time in calendar year 2010?