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Educate your kids about the harms of drugs and... drug prohibition
Parents have known for a long time to educate their children about the harms of drugs. Sometimes while doing those drugs when their kids aren’t looking. Nudge, nudge, wink, wink to all the midnight toking parents. 
I certainly support giving kids the standard talk about drugs and their harms. It is an absolute must. The discussion must be honest. Don’t use bullshit fear tactics that are not based on fact. It is crucial to educate our kids so they can make good decisions. Don’t just strike fear into them, give them real info.
It’s no secret why parents talk to their kids about drugs. They want to protect them from the harms drugs cause - obviously. Clearly this is a noble endeavor and quite often it succeeds. Sometimes it doesn’t.
There is however another set of harms that could be inflicted on our children that parents need to discuss with their kids. Those harms are being caused by drug prohibition. Take a look through some of my previous blog posts for examples of the harms caused by the drug war and you’ll see that our drug laws have caused more harm than good, and have made our society less safe. The world in which our children live (the people we are trying to keep safe through drug prohibition) are actually made less safe due to the lucrative and violent black market drug trade.
Yep. The laws we passed to keep our children safe have actually made things worse. Well that’s not really why we passed our current drugs laws, it had more to do with keeping white women safe from big negro cocks, and keeping dirty Mexican’s from being free on American soil. But all of that is a blog post for another day.
We all have to remember that our children see it on TV every day in the news. Drug crime. Crime caused by drugs. The message is always phrased to make the listener think that the drugs themselves are a direct cause of the crime. Of course that’s not true. It’s the opposite. It’s an intellectually dishonest statement.
In reality, a large portion of the “drug” crime that we face in our communities is the unintentional consequence of our choice to make narcotics illegal. In the absence of our current prohibitionist drug policies there would be no environment in which criminal activity could flourish to the extent it has under drug prohibition.
When we legalized booze we took the mafia out of the alcohol business. The EXACT same thinking applies to narcotics. All that making drugs illegal has done is make drugs purer, more potent, cheaper, more plentiful, and more attractive to youth. Oh, and it also made violent, uneducated two-bit thugs into millionaires while draining tax payers of billions of dollars every year fighting an unwinnable drug war. That doesn’t sound like a drug policy that should be allowed to continue. It hasn’t succeeded in any way shape or form!
So I think as responsible parents we have a responsibility to educate our children about this often ignored side of the drug issue. If we don’t we’ll never be able to raise a generation of citizens that can get our society back on the right track by repealing drug prohibition. It’s clear that police, politicians, and organized crime (not sure if I can tell them apart) aren’t going to change anything because it’s not in their self interest. It’s up to us and our children to get our society back on track through repealing drug prohibition.