Carey, are you sure it's
actually voluntary? I don't know anything about the program or the people who run it or how much lattitude the individual facilities have. But I have to point out that Straight, and similar programs, always claim their clients are enroled voluntarily.
They use very euphemistic terms to describe the process. They say that the client receives an evaluation. Translated, the client is sequestered in a small, windowless room with, maybe, a chair and then interrogated and brow beat till they confess and sign zee papers. (I signed the first ones "Mickey Mouse", which really pissed them off... some hours later, I finally caved)
Once inside, it's fools play to tell anyone you're being held against your will or that you're anything but pleased as punch with the whole thing. A couple of years of that and a lot of people actually begin to believe it.
Our youth can not understand why society chooses to criminalize a behavior with so little visible ill effect or adverse social impact... These young people have jumped the fence and found no cliff.
http://www.druglibrary.org/schaffer/library/studies/nc/ncmenu.htm' target='_new'>Commission on Marihuana and Drug Abuse
