“The Drug-Free Marshals are role models for their peers, and they empower other youth to say ‘no’ to the use of drugs.“
— Mayor of Atlanta

      Children who participate in the program are first educated on the dangers of drug use, then deputized as Drug-Free Marshals who pledge to keep themselves, their friends and family drug-free. Under this program, young people are given responsibility for creating their own drug-free generation by:

1. Living a drug-free life.
2. Showing my friends that a drug-free life is more fun.
3. Helping my fellow Drug-Free Marshals.
4. Learning more about how drugs really harm people.
5. Telling people the truth about the harmful effects of drugs.
6. Helping my family and friends be drug-free.
7. Setting a good example to all children.

      Drug-Free Marshals swear in adults as well as children, taking their positive message into many sectors of society. Additionally, they conduct essay contests, anti-drug marches and drug education lectures.

      The program began when 200 children between the ages of 6 and 13 were sworn in on April 3, 1993, by the Los Angeles director of the FBI’s Drug Demand Reduction Program. Since that time tens of thousands of children and adults –' including national and state legislators, mayors, judges and police chiefs – have been “sworn in.” The program has been adopted by schools, some of which have sponsored essay contests about the benefits of being drug-free. Others have declared their schools “Drug-Free Marshal Territory” and pledged to keep drugs entirely out of their local communities.

      During the 1996 Centennial Olympic Games in Atlanta, Georgia, young Drug-Free Marshals conducted a 21-park tour. As the Mayor of Atlanta described it, “The Drug-Free Marshals are role models for their peers, and they empower other youth to say ‘no’ to the use of drugs.”

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