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Baccalaureate Oral Exam 2009: Series A4-A5
   
Let's Act Right Now, And Together!

Today, taking drug has become a banal gesture for some people. But behind this act is hiding a big life and family destroyer.
Every day, we are facing a lost generation. Indeed for the last 15 years, the youth have been going off into a deadly adventure. Drug is everywhere to be found: at working places, in schools, pubs, homes etc. Brigands and mad people can be seen stuck to this lethal smoke coming out of the nostrils or rising from lips watered with hemp, cocaine or solvent. And Africa is thus losing a whole generation. They can be seen elsewhere inhaling and smoking. Drug-addicts are in the street, walking up and down, blinded by life and enlightened by death. They no longer fear and are about to stab the unfortunate citizen, feeling no remorse, sometimes with an evasive smile which accompanies the mourning of their victim's relatives. Facing them, the family's hopes collapse at once and are changed into endless nightmares. Powerless, we all witness the destruction of our own offspring. Yet, children are the most important of our own offspring. Yet, children are the most important thing in the world.
We are all responsible; it is a collective failure: governments' policies, parents and society itself. So we should act right now so as to avoid these "locked up brains" which are being slaughtered by products. Drug is there. It has got over the school walls because more and more pupils and students are thinking that it is the best means to learn lessons. Teachers, wives and newspaper boys are providing the worst examples. And you can see chained children within the prisons, revolted against their parents for having set them aside.
Drug leads nowhere except to death or into jail.

Translated from Votre Santé, Number 149, November 2008, p. 40

Vocabulary:

1. To go off into; se lancer dans...
2. Hemp: chanvre indien.