mini story time! (CW: drugs, in abstract) 

When we were in elementary school, we ended up getting a visit from one of those anti-drug campaigns that told kids to "Say No To Drugs".

Being the naïve kid we were, we started refusing to take our prescribed medication, since those are also called "drugs".

The only reason we started taking them again was because a pharmacist explained that not all drugs were bad.

The question we should have asked back then was "Who decides which drugs are 'good' or 'bad', and how do they make that decision?"

Better late than never, we guess.

Apparently our spell checker knows "naive", but not "naïve". shrug

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@The1AndMany The spelling with the diaeresis is falling out of fashion, i think
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