I wouldn't recommend sex, drugs or insanity for everyone, but they've always worked for me.
Hunter S Thompson
Just reading through some of these replies, and I can't see why some people get so worked up about the subject. Is the concept of individual choice so alien, so complex?
Drugs are a technology, they are a tool, and they have their uses and misuses. I knew someone who was killed by a fridge door. Does that mean I will never put ice in my drink again, that I will only consider food storage options that don't involve white goods? Similarly, my girlfriend finds life intense enough without stoking it up with some skunk. Does that make us terminally incompatible?
These questions are absurd, but there is one stone hard truth that is unavoidable: prohibition creates crime. It creates desire and it creates the opportunistic moments in which to exploit that desire. Sure, the law will attempt to ameliorate its own power to produce criminals by arresting and punishing 'criminals', but it's guaranteed that the law will not be applied universally and equally.