Therefore we need to educate the population and stop the scaremongers.

Agree!

I laugh, "ironically", as I drink my morning coffee, while reading this post. The coffee is in a D.A.R.E.(Drug Abuse Resistance "Education") Seriously. I got the mug from a local police officer as a "perk" for donating to his local affiliate.(Don't Judge me, it was a political move on my part)
I at the time of the donation did not have the intestinal fortitude(guts) or "balls" to tell him that he was probably "educating" in such a way as to encourage drug use, rather than resistance.
I remember in my teen years "seeking" the truth, rather than falling for the anti-drug propaganda, such as "Reefer Madness"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reefer_Madness
and "Go Ask Alice" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Go_Ask_Alice