Youth are more perceptive than we give them credit for. They easily see through our two-faced, hypocritical pontificating. Recreational drug laws have created a forbidden fruit situation that needlessly romanticizes semi-dangerous substances. When grass is legal, it will be growing abundantly like the weed it is. Self responsibility is the answer, just like booze.
Libertarians strongly support gun ownership as a defense against crime and tyranny.
Gun control can become gun confiscation, which leaves a population defenseless against tyranny of all kinds. Prisons punish taxpayers as well as criminals, and are graduate schools for crime. Better to have our friends and neighbors with us, than breeding resentment, rage and crowding in prisons. No, of course not. Just because government is involved in something doesn't necessarily mean these are areas for private enterprise.