can you honestly say legal drugs aren't capable of the exact same thing?
people will always choose to spend their time/money on self fulfillment, be it drugs, shopping, drinking, gaming, etc etc
personally i feel that people should be more educated about their choices. you see young teenagers getting disgustingly drunk almost every friday/saturday night, because half of them feel that's what the norm is. a lot of them after a couple of years decide it isn't for them and cut back, or stop completely.
by the same token you sometimes see people partaking in illegal drugs also, be it out of curiosity, or because they feel like the social stigma is unfounded, or even just because they see it as a way of "rebelling"
i'm not trying to say drugs are good, but then i'm not trying to say they're bad either
i just don't believe that illegal drugs are the source of all the ills in society - people are