Contrary to that we need drugs in many situations in life. There are the obvious examples where you need opiates for alleviation of extreme pain and the less ob

Contrary to that we need drugs in many situations in life. There are the obvious examples where you need opiates for alleviation of extreme pain and the less obvious ones like using stimulants to help manage ADHD but there are many other medical and non medical reasons. Caffeine and alcohol are both useful in daily life but I believe many other drugs could be similarly useful if properly adopted into social norms. Yes there will always be cases of abuse but our effort should be on helping those individuals to recover rather than enforcing a blanket ban that does much more harm. In fact, I believe that many of the people who become addicts would not if they lived in a society where there were social structures that allowed them to use the appropriate drugs in the right amounts to help them function in their daily lives.