[Getready]

Very good viewpoint....but drugs dont add much to ones life...a little short term but mentally debilitating pain relief and or euphoria..but long term effects are tooooo much personally and societally. Drug use does expose our human condition (needs, desires, mental disorders)

[AndyJackson]

And the way that you deal with things that have a long term deleterious effect on society and culture is to create cultural taboos around them - take drugs and you cannot hold a responsible position, you will be shunned by everyone except the political class of California, Colorado and Washington State.

We have tried criminalization and that created the war on drugs bonanza which created enormous financial incentives not to solve the problem.