You construct entire political platforms, fund dozens of administrative agencies at various levels of government, and propagate slogans based on the unified menace presented by drugs. But most of the time, you throw the word drugs around as though the negative cachet it carries were equally applicable to all it represents. You are, of course, utterly wrong. And you act in accordance with this variance in value. No doctor would ever advise a patient seeking to lose weight to merely eat less food, because a huge difference exists between celery and cheesecake.
Some foods are more fattening than others.
Some foods are more palatable than others. And as a corollary, no one would ever present a friend with a birthday trout stuck with candles or a lover with a box of raw peanuts on Valentine's Day. Some foods are more seaonally appropriate than others. First of all, despite occasional claims to the contrary, you don't consider some drugs to be drugs at all. Many of you champion the notion of a drug-free America while sipping your beers and smoking your cigarettes.