One of the problems I see with this strategy is the focus on "early education". We've had programs like DARE for 30 years and I believe studies have shown that people who go through the DARE program are as likely to do drugs as people who don't. The powers that be need to realize that sometimes the best thing to do is nothing at all, like the Portugal model (well, they still force people into treatment if they get caught with drugs in Portugal, but that's less than what most countries do). Since it is empirically known from 30 years of data that education programs are pretty much useless, this looks like more money being thrown away so that politicians can say they are doing *something* to combat drugs (and at least useless education isn't as disastrous as mass incarceration of the populace).