The drug problem, I happen to think, is a problem of eliminating or reducing the demand. I don't see that the supply is anything but a function of the demand. They'll get through if the demand is here. I don't think the Bennett program is altogether without effect if the statistics about the decline in the use of marijuana in high schools are true, and so we're getting, maybe, somewhere in that regard. You're saying it's only external to go after the source.
Government has a responsibility to do what government can do to make things better.
And I don't think that is the case in many of these situations. In the particular case of drugs, unless you go for decriminalization, which is Bill Buckley's solution but not mine, I think you have to say that one government function is certainly to attack, as best we can, the whole question of the demand. I have a hunch that Willie Brown would not let that through the legislature, and he wouldn't have much trouble. Because this is the fashionable vice. Tobacco is the middle-class disease.