In almost every thread one or more commenters brings up various reasons to legalize drugs. It is important to remember that the drug culture is new in the U.S., dating only from 1964. Before that, there were almost no drug users in the U.S., except in tiny cultural pockets of some musicians, some ghettos and some Hollywood types.

The new drug culture was purely a creature of the hippies/boomers. It was also a part of the long list of new problems and malignant dysfunctions that ballooned drastically with the rise of that generation, beginning in the 60s, such as increases in out-of-wedlock births by 600%, divorces by 300%, teen suicides by 300%, huge decreases in the ability to read, etc., etc., etc. All concurrent with, and brought about by, the Boomer generation and those disgraceful scoundrels who helped indoctrinate them. (Of which I was one.)

Before the 60s and the Boomers, there was no “drug culture” and no “drug problem.” No drug lords, no countries overwhelmed by drug lords with their mass murders and corrupting of governments. No destruction of the lives of the youth of many countries by early addiction. No collateral effects from large numbers of “recreational” dopers.

Why keep trying to keep the drug culture going? Let it go. It is not like alcohol, which has always been there. It is new. Give it whatever chance it may have to fizzle out. Why is it worth preserving? Just which great benefits has it brought? May it eventually die out, at least when the generation that started it dies of old age.