The major drug epidemic that America is facing today is going to be no easy problem to fix, if it is even possible to fix it at all. The reason that the drug problem will more than likely never be stopped is because those who are in charge of the war on drugs are not only taking the wrong approaches to eliminating drug use, but their goal of total eradication has defeated them before they've begun. Our countries politicians and media have turned the usage of illegal drugs into a political platform and an attention grabber to help further their careers, and in the process have made the use of illegal substances, marijuana especially, seem to be more hazardous a problem than it really is. Figuring that Alcohol and Tobacco, which are legal drugs, kill more people per year than all illegal drugs combined, the media should be focusing their attention to these problems. But unfortunately these substances make the government too much money every year for them to ever try to pass la!
             ws banning them. I am not saying that all illegal drugs should be legalized, because that would just be sending out a message to America's youth that using drugs is ok, since the government would never legalize anything that is potentially dangerous to the public's, right (And people wonder why more and more kids are beginning to smoke each year despite the increase in ads that attempt to deter children from tobacco). Drugs should definitely not be legalized, and since it is not possible to criminalize drugs that are already legal (ex prohibition), some in between has to be found, because drugs have become too ingrained into our society to ever be completely eliminated. It would be like trying to criminalize chocolate. The only option left available to us then is to figure out a way to make people not want to use drugs. If there is no motivation to use, then there is no longer a problem. Also, since the American
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