Cannabis is a completely separate drug, used in completely different surroundings. Cannabis users don't steal to feed their habit in the way heroin and cocaine users have been known to do. However, the report failed to tackle the reason why young people use drugs in the first place. It is no wonder that the government wasn't keen to address the problem. Young people use drugs because there is little else to do and because, quite simply, they make you feel good.
Drugs are likely to offer the most exhilarating experience many people are ever likely to encounter.
The buzz that can be had from taking an ecstasy pill or a wrap of speed at a club is mind-blowing. You can tell at a club who the people are who have taken something. One look in their eyes tells you they are having the time of their life, escaping to another world. They are completely unselfconscious, not caring one bit what other people might think of them. Teenagers want to forget they've got to revise or hand in an essay.