Do you think the same of "Hard"drugs?
Yes. It costs far too much of my money to stop people from doing what they're still doing after this long, drawn out "war" against drugs; you simply cannot tell a person what it is they're going to do and expect good results to follow.
If people want to do it, they will do it, regardless of what any law says. There has been a law against killing (your fellow citizens at least) for thousands of years with varying punishments and people still don't "get the message"; law, then, does not prevent anything, it only puts a bandaid on the problem after it occurs. It is knowledge which dictates prevention (not propaganda, as nations love to use, but real knowledge); if a person knows why they shouldn't do hard drugs, they're far less likely to do them. For those who still do, they would understand the risks, and would know their own limits, and when they're ready to kick the habit, businesses would already be around, not to prosecute them for what they've done, but to help them so they'll stop. Prison has been the absolute most ineffective rehab for hard drug use; in fact, placing a bunch of drug addicts in a cage has led to even more prison violence and even more organized drug cartels, where people come out of prison (if ever) even more convinced that their way is the right way.
Coercion doesn't work, not with drugs, not with anything, and forcing people not to take hard drugs when it's already obvious that they're very, very bad to take, means just these things: people are either still ignorant of the effects of these drugs, are flatly curious (e.g. doing something that's banned is a sign it's "badass"), or don't have enough self-worth to care. These are the underlying problems that the "war on drugs" not only does not fix, but makes worse.
