The New York Times published some important Letters to the Editor today about two recent opinion pieces about the War On Drugs.
I wrote one that did not get published. Allow me to be bold enough to believe it deserves your attention.
"The Times has recently published two excellent opinion pieces: America Has Lost the War On Drugs. Here’s What Needs to Happen Next by
The Editorial Board and One Year Inside a Radical New Approach to America’s Overdose Crises by Jeneen Interlandi.
"I wonder whether these pieces will become available in our nation’s classrooms where they belong for close reading and serious discussion. Many of our high school and college students are, or are about to become, of voting age. They will soon be voting on drug policy and not long after helping to create drug policy. Will opinion essays such as these join ever-lengthening lists of books banned from classrooms or will they help begin a new era of intellectual harm reduction where rather than telling our children to “Just Say No” to drugs we ask them to “Please Think Critically” when it comes to the ever-changing landscape of drugs and drug policy they will soon inherit?"
