Baton Rouge Drug Enforcement Has Plummeted Since Police Killed Alton Sterling

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5. Honest education would be a step in the right direction

instead of the stupid DARE program that most kids tell me is a joke. Pair that with inpatient rehab centers for people who run into trouble and we might be able to affect the drug use that becomes problematic.

The rest of us are grownups and no longer need a nanny to tell us which things are no nos. Most of us would rather have our brains working right, thanks, so we'd only use medication to treat our pain.

Of course, the bluenosed moralists won't see it that way and continue to agitate for laws against the rest of us, but I think we can say one thing for certain: drug prohibition doesn't work any better than alcohol prohibition did.