Mike Stanford

[Handre @Handre]

The federal government spent $3.8 billion on DARE between 1983 and 2009, and every major longitudinal study concluded the program increased drug curiosity among participants. The General Accounting Office reviewed six long-term evaluations in 2003 and found DARE produced zero statistically significant difference in illicit drug use. The Surgeon General, the National Academy of Sciences, and the Government Accountability Office all said the same thing: DARE failed. Congress kept funding it anyway.

This is what central planners do. They identify a problem, design a solution without market feedback, spend decades ignoring contrary evidence, and protect the program because the bureaucracy depends on it. DARE gave police departments a public relations budget disguised as education. It gave officers a reason to enter schools. The incentive was never reducing drug use. The incentive was institutional survival.

A simpler mechanism is also at work. Tell a twelve-year-old that heroin, cocaine, and marijuana exist, describe their effects in vivid detail, and then instruct him not to try them. You've just handed him a menu. Prohibition teaches the product, not abstinence. Parents who handle this privately, without a uniformed officer narrating the pharmacology of methamphetamine, produce quieter, less curious children on the subject.

The market alternative already existed: voluntary community programs, church groups, family-driven education. None of these required a $3.8 billion federal mandate. The government crowded them out, delivered a worse product, and called the outcome a public health investment.

[Mike Stanford @Hayden62]

@nut_history Bob Gibson is my starter….thats easy

[Mike Stanford @Hayden62]

This is true and the 80s was even worse…

[Baseball Quotes @BaseballQuotes1]

Tom Glavine warming up while the pitching coach rips a heater is PEAK 90’s �

[Mike Stanford @Hayden62]

@ShitBsbPlyrsSay Pitcher doing his job, as far as I’m concerned

[Big League Digest @BigLeagueDigest]

Chad McCormick tries to interfere with a play at first and then gets drilled in the back with a 99 mph fastball.

I think he got the message.

[Mike Stanford @Hayden62]

….top 5 moment in Atlanta sports history. I’ll never forget

[BaseballHistoryNut @nut_history]

Skip Caray's call of Cabrera's walk-off, pennant-clinching hit is one of the best ever

[Mike Stanford @Hayden62]

Greg Maddux has to be on this list…seriously

[Super 70s Sports @Super70sSports]

Who’s in your dream starting rotation? I mean at their very best, you get the peak version of each guy. I’ll start:

1. Pedro Martinez
2. Bob Gibson
3. Sandy Koufax
4. Dwight Gooden
5. Randy Johnson

[Mike Stanford @Hayden62]

Bob Gibson….not even close

[BaseballHistoryNut @nut_history]

Who do you believe is/was the most intimidating in MLB history. Please quote

[Mike Stanford @Hayden62]

How old is Bonnie Raitt? I mean, honestly…she’s been a smoke show forever.

[Mike Stanford @Hayden62]

Remember when you were reluctant to give up your land line?

[Mike Stanford @Hayden62]

There’s no price sensitivity for college tuition, courtesy of our Govt student loan programs. That’s how Stanford now employs more staff than students

[Mike Stanford @Hayden62]

In my 60 year old mind, I think a pair of Levi’s should run no more than $40

[Mike Stanford @Hayden62]

States w/pro-growth policies fare best - who’s surprised

[zerohedge @zerohedge]

Initial claims change by state: ugly

[Mike Stanford @Hayden62]

@Kelly_Quinlan Let’s give the job to Nate McCollum. He deserves it

[Mike Stanford @Hayden62]

Are we trying to win? I’m not so sure

[Kelly Quinlan @Kelly_Quinlan]

GT is 0-3 in the red zone today trail 16-7. 4:56 to go.

[Mike Stanford @Hayden62]

I remember when Robin Yount broke into the league as an 18yr old…holy crap - he’s 67

[Baseball In Pics @baseballinpix]

Happy 67th Birthday to Hall of Famer Robin Yount, born this day in Danville, IL.

[Mike Stanford @Hayden62]

bad, bad, ju-ju.....the universe doesn't let this go unpunished.

[Baxter Street Boys @baxstboys]

Apparently Texas A&M is taking this video down on everyone’s page, just wanna join the fun and see if they find us

[Mike Stanford @Hayden62]

Take that Mets fans…

[Mike Stanford @Hayden62]

This is truly a sad day…

[Eater Atlanta @EaterAtlanta]

ICYMI this is what's replacing Zesto in Little Five Points https://t.co/R57FUe98Xd

[Mike Stanford @Hayden62]

Well said…and completely true

[Baseball Quotes @BaseballQuotes1]

Everyday is a new opportunity. You can build on yesterday's success or put its failures behind and start over again. That's the way life is, with a new game every day, and that's the way baseball is. -Bob Feller