Problem Case #1: DRUGS

So I said I would keep following up on this worldly direction idea, and I'm trying to keep my word. My plan is to tackle a problem a week from the short list of them I have provided. I initially thought 'oh, a problem a day will do the trick...'. But really? No. How can world problems be fixed in a day? Even a week's worth of blogging is not nearly enough time. But it's a definite start. You know, just get the good ole' machinery up there working.  Oh, and by the way, for purposes of ease, this whole little fandango will be called Project Solution.

Problem Case #1:
DRUGS

Previously stated, we've established that our problem may just well be with preventing the problem rather than merely fixing what's already happened. So let's just stick with that presumption.
Why do we like drugs? I have no first hand experience, per se. Nor do I ever intend to ever thrust that experience upon myself. But I have had first hand experience with other addicts. Therefore, I do feel inclined to touch some serious base with this subject. Onward-
Drugs put us in an elevated state of mind. Some kind of grandiloquent state of existence that you just can't get in normal, ordinary, everyday life. So, it's a nice feeling I assume.
But why put yourself in a position where you do not have full control over yourself?

Why put a substance behind the steering wheel of our lives? And a deadly, fatal substance at that.

It's honestly kind of like giving a murderer the key to your house. You just don't do it. It doesn't make sense, right? Well then, why allow drugs to overtake your entire mind and body?  Again, senseless.

But then again, we have things like this circulating among our people:

It's really... discouraging, these things are. I mean, let's face it. This is our media. Our televisions and computers are like caretakers. They feed us and they nurture us. But with all the wrong things. And when we allow such things to be circulated and popularized, we only make them okay. We're making all of this alright. We're doing it to ourselves. Because drugs have become a kind of norm, we aren't allowing ourselves, as a population, to realize the extremity of their danger.
Is this really true, though? I mean, for the most part, everybody tells us growing up that drugs are bad, to say nope to dope, to pass on the grass...
But why don't we listen?
It's kind of like the kid in the candy shop that lets his temptation and curiosity get the best of him. Given enough opportunity and view sight, the candy is snatched and the parent is stuck paying the 50 cent fee at the end of the visit.