Why, oh, why do the POT NOW people keep comparing alcohol and pot? Is that really the best they can do? It is a completely lame argument, as it's a comparison of apples and oranges. Alcohol use was already widespread and had been since Adam left the grape juice out too long. It was a few thousand years too late to put that genie back in the (wine) bottle. Now then, pot use is nowhere near the use of alcohol use, nor is it "socially acceptable" by any decent standards. Make it legal, and many people who would have never used it before will start.
And, pleeeze, most teenagers have no problem getting their hands on booze.
The WOD will NEVER end drug abuse. I know and fully accept that as a fact of life. We don't live in a Utopia. I know this to be a fact, just as surely as I know the War on Murder, War on Theft, and War on Rape will NOT end murder, theft, and rape.
It's really quite simple. Either you have a government that supports and provides the means for drug abuse, OR you have a government that tries to limit drug abuse and its destructive effects on society. The idea that the former would even be considered is mind boggling.