US CO: Edu: OPED: War On Drugs Wages Pointless Battles, Needs

The Scribe, 10 Sep 2012 – When I was younger, my parents and a lot of my teachers told me that drugs were bad. Their warnings conjured up images of drug-dealing kingpins from action movies. I thought marijuana was a really horrible drug to use. The news offered stories of kids getting busted for smoking pot, and I thought that drug use always ended in a police arrest.