Prohibition

What is the deadliest drug in America?

  1. How accurate was your prediction?

  2. What most surprised you about this data?

  3. How many of America's three most deadly drugs are legal?

  4. Why do you think marijuana is illegal and tobacco is legal?

  5. Would making tobacco illegal make tobacco usage and mortality go down?

  6. Let's think about U.S. history. What were some of the consequences of U.S. prohibition alcohol?

  7. Is it possible that relative few people die of cocaine, benzodiazepines, and heroin because of the very fact that they are all illegal?

  8. If you were the U.S. drug czar would you outlaw tobacco?

  9. Is the U.S. winning the war on drugs?

  10. How do you think the Trump administration will alter US drug policy?

  11. In the comments section, share your opinion about U.S. drug policy:


Learning Extension

Read this fantastic Vox article on America's deadliest drugs.


Action Extension

Contact the White House's Office of National Drug Control Policy and share your opinion of America's drug control policy?

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