text: Why do people start using drugs? Certainly not to feel better; they're challenged by schoolmates and friends, as a rite of passage (pure tribal behaviour). And in seeking acceptance they try them. Over time they develop dependency and a strong attachment to them, the same way they do to liquor or tobacco. For some obscure reason the latter are still legal and the former is not. This in turn creates a logical sociogenic outcome: Druglords, and the ensuing trail of bloodshed, crime and lack of welfare in drug producing nations. Legalizing drugs would at least turn druglords into businesspersons and it would raise a profitable industry....in the early stages. Drugs would eventually become so "mainstream" that many kids would not find it a challenge to use them. But I woke up from that dream long a go; governments thrive on druglords, either in Colombia, Mexico or the US.