Reality TV can be very instructive, particularly when it features a victim of his own excesses (including the excessive lust for money which causes him to invite MTV into his home so millions of people can laugh at his entire family).
People like Lynn Cheney would stuff Ozzy (and perhaps her lesbian daughter) deep into the closet so that no own would have to deal with their troubled reality. That's the real reason the drug war continues. Banning drugs is the conservatives' way of denying the reality of drug use. But of course, to the thrill seekers, what is in the closet is always more interesting that what is out in the open, so in the final analysis the Lynn Cheneys of the world are encouraging the very behavior they claim to abhor.