Tell them, that every drug has its benefit!
Tell them, that drugs can give people, what they need and what they want!
People know this! And this is the reason, why people want to take drugs!
Nicotine can calm you down. Alcohol can make you happy. Weed can make you creative and imaginatively. Cocaine can make you awake and strong. Heroin can ease your pain. Psychedelics can give you a relationship to god….and so on.
But explain them also: Every drug turns its benefit into the opposite, if it isn’t used in “the right way”!
Because of this Nicotine will make people nervous. Alcohol will make people unhappy and sad. Cocaine will make people tiered and weak. Heroin will cause great pain. And so on.
And tell them, that most people, even you, are not able to use these drugs in “the right way”, because it is easier to balance on a wire rope or on the edge of a razor blade then using drugs in “the right way”!!! And tell them, that you don’t take any drugs for this reason!
You may say, this is a lie, but the kids (and your boss) mustn’t know the entire truth…