I completely see your point and I have many friends and family who agree with you. In fact I used to agree with it too until I looked at the numbers. States or schools who teach abstinence have much higher STD and pregnancy rates than those who teach safe sex. 

When I say safe sex or safe drug use, I'm not encouraging kids or people to go out and do that. What I am saying is teenagers need to know how alcohol works. They need to know how pot, adderral, painkillers work. They need to know how a vast majority of heroin addicts started on painkillers which were legally prescribed. 

In an ideal world parents are responsible and have open and honest discussions with their children about this. Unfortunately that's not the reality. I think we can both agree that our goals, on either side of the spectrum, is to ultimately avoid teen pregnancy, disease, or overdose. We just have different ideas on how to achieve the goal.

Welcome to politics!