You may think this is cruel, but it identifies a real phenomenon. Then, it doesn't matter that you opted to use your head, not when your choices are made for you. You're forced to suffer just as if you'd made the mistakes, instead of some bureaucrat or politician. The classic case is the Volstead Act. For a decade afterward, they ignored its secondary effects, which proved more damaging to society than the use of alcohol.
Prohibition is to blame for a lot that's wrong with America today.
It was the beginning of a popular disregard for the law. Millions of ordinary people who became criminals by fiat overnight, responded by drinking more than ever, many of them for the first time, simply to assert their rights. Moral lines became hopelessly blurred and have tended to stay that way ever since. And, although it wound up being partly repealed, Prohibition also set precedents for government meddling in every other aspect of individual life. Those who scream loudest about youth gangs today are the same ones to whom the minimum wage, just another kind of Prohibition, is a sacred article of faith.