To hear the cops tell it, they’re the “thin blue line” that stands between civilization and a species of chaos resembling Mad Max meets Lord of the Flies in the midst of an immense drunken free-for-all in Somalia.
– “Bait and Switch”
Even with only one holiday, Lammas, August had plenty of regular features: the guest columnist was Marijke Vonk; the fictional interlude was “Coming Up Short“; the harlotography was “Liu Rushi“; the Q&A columns were “Bad Idea“, “The Wrong Track“, “Screen, Screen, Screen“, and “Getting Caught“; and the Cliterati reprints were “Prudesville“, “Business As Usual“, and “Another Fine Mess“. That leaves only “844,739“, a paean to Waffle House; “The Monsters Are Due“, an old Twilight Zone episode about moral panic; “New Excuse“, my first full-length statement that the War on Whores is the new War on Drugs; “Making It Up As They Go“, a look at how “sex trafficking” hysterics literally just make things up; and “Bait and Switch“, an explanation of how police departments create “child sex predators” out of ordinary young men. 
Nice graph:
Authoritarians are not rational. If they feel other people should not do something, they will apply whatever violence they can to the “problem”. Having zero positive effect and doing a lot of evil in the process will just convince these diseased minds that they need to apply more violence and destroy more lives.
Drugs are not a problem that can be solved. A certain part of the population is susceptible to addiction to them and will get them, no matter what. Nothing can be done (as the graph nicely states) to change that. The only moral thing to do is to make the situation of those unfortunates better by providing what help the medical field can. This includes medical-grade drugs at affordable prices and other help. There will not be a wave of addicts that destroys society as a result. Incidentally, Heroine and Cocaine were sold legally in Europe something like 100 years ago and while people killed themselves with them (during a crass economic depression) society did not collapse or anything.