There is one fact about the drugs debate which is never, ever mentioned. Nor will it be while public life is still dominated, inevitably but by definition temporarily, either by old pot-heads or by those who came after them, the Eighties types who believe that cocaine-snorting is an integral part of, as someone once put it, "a normal university experience".
That fact is that drug abuse is now abnormal and in decline among the young. It was a distinct minority pursuit even when I was an undergraduate. Now that I work with undergraduates, I have repeatedly heard them drop hints that, while they themselves don't "do" drugs, they feel that they are somehow missing out by not "doing" them because so to "do" is an integral part of, as someone once put it, "a normal university experience".
No, it is not. Not any more, anyway.
Our day will come. And not a moment too soon.
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