However, the same cannot be said about many other drugs, such as heroin, cocaine, crystal meth, or even legal substances like alcohol, nicotine and caffeine. People want to experience intoxication. Police officers may suck back pots of coffee and supplement that with wake-up pills, or hit the bar for hours after their shift. Academics and professors may explore the depths of their minds with LSD, peyote or mescaline. College kids may drop a tab of Ecstasy at a rave or a dance club.
Many physicians still smoke cigarettes, drink alcohol, or smoke pot off-duty.
Airline pilots, athletes, librarians, laborers, students, parents, children the use of substances to alter our mood and enhance our sociability is a nearly universal experience in our society and always has been. There is a way that we can be forever rid of the criminal drug gangs and their violence, end drug addiction and the risk to health that even legal substances of intoxication pose, and still provide people with the experiences of intoxication that they will never stop seeking and for which they will be willing to engage in criminal activity if necessary. The solution is quite simple. No one wants to be addicted to a drug. No one wants to over-dose on a drug.