I&#x27;m not encouraging teenage drug use. I&#x27;m pointing out how intellectually, emotionally and economically harmful modern high school is for young people.<p>Before and during alcohol prohibition, demonizing alcohol was the only way that society had to talk about the problem of domestic violence, because society could not address the problem directly. So alcohol was made the scapegoat.<p>I believe that we currently use drug use in teens as a similar scapegoat, because we can&#x27;t talk about the reasons teenagers are in distress.<p>In my opinion the way we do modern education in its current form is harmful to young people. If it wasn&#x27;t we wouldn&#x27;t see such high rates of anxiety, depression and ADHD.