This is the long-term legacy of the 60's. All one ever heard was that drugs were just a-okay. "Drugs, sex and rock'Nrol" was the mantra of the 60's.
Now we have a bumper crop of DRUG ADDICTS, HIV/AIDS and (C)RAP "music." What a charming legacy.
Drugs will be our ruin.
We've handled drugs for a long time: opiates, cocaine, and marijuana go back decades before the 60s, and the deadly, addictive violence-inducing drug alcohol goes back millenia. What may be our ruin is drug criminalization ... which, just like Prohibition before it, channels inflated profits into criminal hands and fosters disrespect for the law.