It's 2016, and the media is still pushing the same classic tropes, marijuana as a gateway drug, etc. Yet other than a quick characterization of DJ being a risk-

It's 2016, and the media is still pushing the same classic tropes, marijuana as a gateway drug, etc. Yet other than a quick characterization of DJ being a risk-taker, this article fails to even consider the most important question- why did he start using? What was the cause of his addiction? Nobody wants to consider the consequences of a society that confines adolescent male hominids in a classroom during the height of puberty, then locks them in cages to keep them from bothering others when they become too much of a bother, or a family that attempts to account for every minute of their adult offspring's life. I can't speak to the female experience, but I still remember the existential ache of a teenaged male trying to make his place in the world. But there's a pill for that, right? Nobody wants to admit that fighting a War On Drugs without fundamentally reforming our toxic society is the same as fighting a War On Climate Change while still burning fossil fuels.