Secondly, governments reject the principle of the sovereignty of the individual. Whether people use alcohol or heroin to escape a dull, dismal and exploitative society is a secondary question. Their desire to escape reality through drugs is what comes first, not the choice of drug. Any proper anti-drug campaign will start by questioning the type of society where people do useless, meaningless jobs in order to earn enough money to pass their leisure time in a state of semiconsciousness. Thirdly, the government is not worried about the failure of prohibition because the whole thing is a massive confidence trick.
Prohibition is wrong in principle and has failed in practice.
Government uses issues like the drug problem to justify its own existence but, as we have seen, the governmental solution makes the original problem worse and creates an additional problem in the form of increased crime. Clearly not the protection of the general public. In the field of drugs the verdict is not merely that government is not the solution. It is that government is part of the problem. The mass media myth about drugs centres on the pusher who entices innocents to their de struction with evil and mysterious substances.