It was almost the best gift legalization advocates received all year.

Drug Abuse Resistance Education, better known as DARE, has spent decades telling schoolchildren (including this author) to “Just Say No” to marijuana.

For a few hours earlier today, however, they appeared to just say yes to legalization.

Christopher Ingraham, a reporter for the Washington Post and one of the most thoughtful journalists covering the drug policy beat today, found a strange re-post on the DARE website of a letter to the editor titled “Purchasing marijuana puts kids at risk” which originally ran in the Columbus Dispatch. Its content? A full-throated endorsement of marijuana legalization by Law Enforcement Against Prohibition (LEAP) speaker Carlis McDerment, on the basis that regulated retailers could be age-restricted. (See screenshot above.)

Ingraham contacted DARE for clarification and got this response:

According to Christopher Ingraham’s Twitter feed, there is yet no word on why they called him “Scott.”

[This article has been edited to reflect the fact that the author of the Op-Ed is a speaker for LEAP.]