OK, Miss B - Let's say it's 1920, and I'll take the liberty of substituting "alcohol" wherever you say "drugs":

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"Alcohol is for people who OPT OUT of society. It makes them weak. It makes them lazy. It makes them not want to WORK.

Read any crime story, and they almost always involve alcohol.

Why? Because it's addictive. Not because it's cool.

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Alcohol has the ability to make SLAVES of everyone of us. People in law enforcement, employers and employees. It's there in crime, and it's there in lost productivity in the workplace."

Yup, everything you say is true about both drugs and alcohol. So?

From 1920 to 1932 the U.S. had the 18th amendment, Prohibition of alcohol. Canadians weren't nearly so dumb. Prohibition was unenforceable, it eroded respect for the law, and it contributed greatly to criminal activity and organizations. Just like the "war on drugs".

I don't have any solution to suggest, and that's not surprising because we haven't solved the alcohol problem either, have we? We just found that it was better to legalize and control alcohol as best we can, and I suspect that will be true of drugs too, in time.