Absolutely I agree with the author.
These attempts to ban force people not to use any of the products, alcohol, drugs give a completely opposite effect.
Remember the fight against alcohol in the United States, the Soviet Union. What does it lead to? Rising crime, shady, criminal business, creating a whole gang.
The same marijuana (hemp). In fact it is one of many plants containing narcotic substances which, when using another extremely useful in medicine, in the production (of the same make hemp a great hemp and excellent ropes.
A poppy? I remember as a child in any garden growing poppy. And nobody tried to steal it, because it is exactly the same poppy growing in the fields. But what wonderful baked buns with poppy seeds !!! Now it is forbidden.
Yes, except marijuana and opium are substances able to drive a man crazy? Let's ban (again) all kinds of alcohol, adhesives (glue for use have stupefying themselves), many household chemicals (solvents, varnishes, paints) ... And mushrooms? Pologina of them contain hallucinogens.
Not the way to choose these "fighters" with drugs.
For the promotion of healthy lifestyles, the creation of an alternative interest dope.