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The controversial substance abuse prevention group D.A.R.E. (Drug Abuse Resistance Education) appeared to have made a surprisingly progressive change in its ideology when it published a letter to the editor endorsing marijuana legalization.
It turns out it was an accident.
The post, titled “Purchasing marijuana puts kids at risk," was published in The Columbus Dispatch.
In the letter, Carlis McDerment, a self-described former deputy sheriff, argues that laws criminalizing marijuana make the substance more accessible to minors.
“I know from enforcing senseless marijuana laws that children only are being put in more danger when marijuana is kept illegal,” said McDerment, who wrote in response to a previous letter to the editor that argued legalized marijuana would harm kids.
“The goal of prohibiting marijuana was to eradicate its use, but in reality, the drug has become infinitely harder for law enforcement to control," he continued in the letter.
While marijuana consumption can certainly be...
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