Sorry...talk to my Aunt who put a bullet in her head after 15 years of drug use. Cleaning her apartment and the floor where her brains splattered was something that a 16 year old remembers the rest of his life. Hairless, skinny, toothless, penny less, she thought her family was uncool, tools of right wing fundamentalism and her drug use (meth, pot, heroin, hash, LSD pills, paint) was an expression of freedom and non conformity. Her belief that the “cop pigs that control her right” to do what she wants with her body ended up killing her. My parents didn’t need to do any drugs not even alcohol and so their parents and further back. They worried more about the kids and grand kids than getting “high” and looking “cool” and trying to find “themselves” and their place in the universe by screwing up their synapses with chemicals 24/7. Anyone or group that promotes any drug use for pleasure, getting high, I stay away from.
I understand where you’re coming from. I am not pro-drugs or pro-drug use.
I can see for myself that there will always be a demand for drugs.
America learned the hard way from alchohol (a drug) prohibition, that the black market suppliers will step in and fill the need, and enrich and empowern themselves, corrupt officials, and usurp the constitutional rights of citizens. Prohibition of alchohol was repealed, and the gunfights between different gangsters supplying illicit beer stopped.
Now, drug prohition has been enacted, and the gunfights, massacres, corruption, and usurption of rights are exponentially worse.
The drug cartels are making more money than Al Capone could have dreamed of, and the police are profiting when they seize assets.
Meanwhile, the drug use continues unabated, because people will always do drugs.
Alchohol sales are regulated and taxed. This does not mean that the government encourages drinking.