If drug education is to be provided in the schools, it should be truthful, informed and realistic. That means allowing discussion of responsible use in drug education classes. It means using Andrew Weil's Chocolate to Morphine as a basic text. It also means ensuring that efforts to prevent kids from using drugs to not evolve into campaigns of intolerance against those who do use drugs. Severely restrict drug testing by both private and government employers.
Nothing is as effective in reducing cigarette smoking among youth.
The notion of empowering consumers in their decisions about drugs is crucially important to ultimately moving toward a drug control regime based upon legal availability. All of these steps may ultimately lead to a drug control regime that provides legal access to most of the drugs that are now prohibited or strictly regulated. I set out a model for such a regime in my article in Daedalus in 1992. It essentially builds a control regime around a basic right to possess any drug together with a legal capacity to obtain most drugs from a legally regulated, civilly liable, source. While I'm willing to await Question 3 for my rant on political mess we've created for ourselves, it's very difficult for me to imagine any program that could somehow abstract itself from that mess.