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In my ever so humble opinion, the answer is an entire overhaul of thought. If drugs were suddenly legal, there would be a surge in drug use, but I believe it would only be temporary. Any suppression of freedom suddenly overturned has always been met with abuse of that newfound freedom. If you pinch a hose, the water pressure builds up and, when you release the blockage, water gushes out but eventually returns to normal flow. (That was much more dignified than the orgasm analogy I was going to use.)

The reason people do drugs is because they're trying to fill a whole in their life, I think. Making drugs legal wouldn't solve problems of the human condition; I'm not claiming it would. I just think it's incredibly naive to think we can prevent the supply from feeding the insatiable demand. Putting pot dealers in with hard-core prisoners is ridiculous. Having overburdened cops chase down Joey Roche because he sold some weed to his neighbor is mismanagement of resources.

An answer to the drug problem? That's easy: find out why everybody feels so inadequate and incomplete. It might have something to do with all those ads everywhere telling them that "you need this," or "you're only normal if you look like X," or "buy a soulmate here, and you'll be complete." Why people take life's Novocain depends on the individual. Allow me to go Pollyanna on you and say we have to stop being so cold and apathetic as a society and start teaching kids from the beginning to give a shit about their fellow human beings. The Golden Rule goes around and comes around. Teach people to be self-reliant at the same time and self-respect will simultaneously occur. In short: build better people. We're here to become better people.