Jesse Kelley (@JessDKelley) is the Government Affairs Manager for Criminal Justice at the R Street Institute. She previously worked at The Scripps Research Institute and the University of Minnesota as an addiction researcher. While Michigan's flavor ban won't help kids, it will harm adults. Young people in the adult system have higher suicide rates than those who are placed in the juvenile system and often do not receive proper educational services while incarcerated. Whitmer is encouraging state legislators to codify her ban into law without regard for these negative outcomes.