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IF 'drug use' wasn't/had not become a problem - it (drugs) wouldn't have been banned.

That's the premise in this piece I penned a few years back - it contends that your *real* problem is the stupid people in society - ELIMINATE them and, virtually ALL laws could be eliminated. (So I exaggerate - you get the point.)

Correct me if I'm wrong, but it's the stupid in society who brought this upon themselves in the first place.
As is often the case - it is several, usually the stupid - who ruin it for the many.
The stupid I refer to at this point are those few dopers who ruined it for the balance of the dope ingesting populace who *can* ingest or inhale their stupifying substances without running afoul of Johnny Law.
This is not to say that other debilitating effects take hold ... they do but the doper in his indulgence in his drug of choice coupled with denial do not see it.
Take for example the doper who has a burglary occur, calls the law who promptly discovers his 'grow' operation - this is the type of advanced IQ I am referring to when I use the term the stupid ...
The following must be considered before launching off on wild-eyed pro-drug or drug legalization diatribes.
IF drug use HAD NOT been a problem - would laws restricting drug use have materialized?
Some simple, clear-headed deductive reasoning (not always achievable by dopers) can shed some light on how we arrived at the point we currently find ourselves.
Following this premise further - problems with this early, growing population of dopers) - and short of actually educating people (not all people are educable, it seems, given those felons who commit multiple buglaries *after* their release from prison) the imposition of rules (laws) with an enforcement body became the norm in controlling the growing problem.
To sum it up, the growing doper population became first - a simple nuisance - then a problem at which point the problem was solved in the manner in which civil order is normally restored. We pass laws. Then *surprise* we enforce those laws ...
What most people in these drug legalization threads are really advocating (in the case of mj) is the freedom to ingest or inhale the stupifying compound THC (active ingredient in mj) via a tobacco-like delivery mechanism (smoking).
More to the point - they are looking for the right to inhale or ingest stupifying substances without repurcussion.