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Let's talk about the facts of life.
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You remember that conversation you had when you were a kid
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with your parents or some trusted adult?
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because it's a myth.
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You don't talk to kids about that stuff.
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It's just so embarrassing.
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And, hey, maybe that's OK.
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We've been outsourcing the facts of life for decades.
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We spend billions of dollars on it.
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So, why talk to kids when you can just turn on the TV?
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I learned about drugs from an egg and a frying pan:
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and this is your brain on drugs.
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Yeah, actually, I did.
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But it's not about questions.
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It's about data.
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In the 1980's when I was growing up,
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those data were terrifying parents:
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1% of high school seniors had try heroin,
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12% hallucinogens,
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12% tranquilizers,
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and over 50% of us had tried marijuana.
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It was an epidemic!
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At least, that's what they told us.
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And marijuana was the gateway drug, leading to all the harder stuff.
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Of course, 92% of us were drinking alcohol,
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and that was killing more of us than all drugs combined.
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But, nevermind, it's legal.
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So we declared war on drugs!
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Nancy Reagan was our general.
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All drugs will kill you, so just say, "No!"
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Just say, "No!" to pot.
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Just say, "No!" to cocaine.
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Just say, "No!" to everything.
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If you want to save kids,
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you have to scare the hell out of them!
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And we spent ridiculous amounts of money doing that.
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Soon that war on drugs spread to become a war on sex.
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We were pushing abstinence on kids to fight AIDS.
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And when all the data finally came home,
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completely ineffective.
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