Let me be naive and jump in to this discussion. I am 55 years old, and being a musician I have been around drugs pretty much forever, and like Little Hawk, I managed by some means to never try them, except for drinking a bit too much beer in the 60s. What I am seeing now in the US and it seems to be similar in the UK is something quite different than a few people smoking a little pot. It is a large bunch of people doing extremely self-destructive drugs like cocaine and Meth. And once on this stuff, they become sort of lost members of society. They are not contributors, but pretty much become takers from society. I know it is always hard to learn from others' mistakes, but it is pretty obvious how destructive these drugs are. I can't quite see the thought process in how people blunder in to this lifestyle. Having siad that, I want to say that I am not trying to say anything inflamatory, just interested and confused in how this happens, why this happens, and what can possibly be done to correct the problem to keep others from making the same mistakes.