In my opinion, the war on drugs is the most important, and most consistantly-faught war that the us has been involved in. Drugs are an interesting topic, as without bans, 'them kids would get addicted too quickly', but with bans, they just don't make much sense. Let's take the laws of vancouver as an example: you can officially start smoking/buying smokes at age 18, but have to wait until 19 to drink/buy alcohol. In the longrun, alcohol causes more monetary damage than smoking, but smoking kills more people than alcohol. Looking at it like this, one can assume that the government (the people who made these bans) care more about you losing money than they do of you dieing. What's weirder is that rather than perm-banning/perm-allowing these, they instead enter a 'grey-zone' by giving us age limits. I guess my opinion on this is summed up with this question: what does the government care more about, your life, your money, or your opinion?