This article was originally published in April 2008, anonymously on a friend’s website. It generated hundreds of comments and tens of thousands of visitors (mostly from reddit). The website it was published on is now defunct, so I thought I’d re-post the article here on my blog.

Enjoy…

When I was in elementary school, during the “Just Say No” days, I remember hearing about drugs and being utterly confounded by the message. If drugs are so bad, I thought, why the heck (I didn’t say hell – it was a bad word) did so many people risk their lives just to get high? Something didn’t make sense. Continue reading »

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