New Yorker Daily Shouts & Murmers

Hey, kiddo. Mind if I awkwardly sit on the edge of your bed in a way that I’ve never done before? I think it’s time we had a talk about the worst possible thing that can ever happen to a human being.

Drugs.

Believe it or not, I was young once, too. I grew up in the early eighties to mid-nineties, so if there’s one thing I have a clear-eyed understanding of, it’s drug use. It seems like every other day our school was running some kind of antidrug program like Just Say No, dare, or even just this local couple who used to come by twice a year with a raccoon puppet. And their message was loud and clear:

Drugs are going to kill you.

Read the full article at The New Yorker.