> So the claim is it was deliberately ineffective at getting kids not to take drugs because …?
The claim is keeping kids off drugs was probably never the real goal, and even if it was the program continued to expand to new places and be funded in existing places long after it was proven ineffective as anything but pro-police propaganda, which wasn't an accident by decision-makers.
Which reveals that even if keeping kids off drugs was once part of the motivation, it wasn't what sustained the program.
