Be that as it may, I remain bemused by the exortations of "Just say no" in an era when it became fashionable to pump children full of mood-altering maintenance medication, including Ritalin and MAO inhibitors, as well as other classes of antidepressants.
One look at looming adulthood and responsibility through the puberty clouded eyes of adolescence is enough to depress anyone, and most of us went through that transition in a simpler age, when the boundaries were much clearer, much better defined. But how in the Dickens can children overcome the hurdles of personality and physical development if they are drugged with mood altering substances? The basic support of friends and/or family got most of us through. Just part of growing up.
At least with tobacco the individual gets some control over the dosage.
Even so, this makes more sense than running the NRA convention out of Denver (not quite, but close) and suing the manufacturers of the illegally obtained firearms.