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Most just swallowed the official line. I know we're largely talking about hypothetical people, but if people were just going with the flow, I'm not sure that

• pmoriarty 6y ago
  "I'm not sure that explains the inability to swallow the new official line." How official is it? In the US, at least, the government spent many millions of dollars (hundreds of millions? billions?) on anti-drug education campaigns for decades, and there was mass media hysteria against drugs for decades. There are still no comparable pro-drug education campaigns, and while there have been some positive research results and positive media coverage on some drugs, the message overall is pretty mixed, and there's still plenty of anti-drug hysteria in the media and anti-drug messages from the government today. It's probably going to take a long time to change the minds of most people who grew up soaked in anti-drug propaganda.