In high school in the 1970s, I was one of the millions of American teenagers subjected to lame antidrug campaigns. A police officer came to my school and lectured us about the evils of marijuana, heroin and LSD. My friends and I half-listened; it didn’t bother us much because we were pleasantly stoned. During the 1980s, drug prevention took the form of the ubiquitous slogan popularized by Nancy Reagan: Just Say No. Decades later, many teenagers are still forced to endure similar approaches, despite the many studies over the...

Source: Wall Street Journal March 07, 2019 16:18 UTC