This would be a lot more convincing to me if I wasn't smoking meth with my friends when we were 14, taking massive doses of DXM and generally ordering whatever the fuck we wanted off the internet or from older kids on the street. Drugs being illegal has not stopped me from using anything at all, it hasn't stopped my friends from using anything at all, even when we were barely teenagers. I had an easier time getting meth than I had getting alcohol, not that either was at all difficult to get. All drugs being illegal has done is made it more dangerous for us, more of us are in the prison system, more of us have died from overdoses. So you can hold whatever belief you want, but the reality is I knew 13 year olds who were injecting oxy and getting tweaked out and the fact that it was illegal meant fuck all. All it meant was we were exposed to hardened criminals, we were sent to prisons and we were forced to use drugs in the least safe and least educated ways possible. That is reality.