Irvine PD's $150k public relations blunder

[Otherbrother]

@Shuck

It wouldn’t surprise me in the least if the anti-drug programs also did the opposite (I mean, are authority figures telling rebellious young people not to do drugs really going to have the intended effect?), and either the cops don’t know (or care to know, because US cops have little interest in evidence-based approaches to things)

I don’t know about the current version of the program but when I was a kid I remember them describing Marijuana use as basically the same level of harm as using crack or heroin. So when kids of my generation got a bit older and learned that, hey, Marijuana isn’t actually all that risky, I can imagine that some people took that to mean that experimenting with harder drugs wasn’t such a big deal either.