It's interesting that despite the politicians screaming about tobacco use, they don't make it illegal. Guess the tax money is just too sweet. Notice that it's immoral and evil for tobacco companies to profit from a product that kills people, but it's perfectly okay for governments to rake in loads of cash from a product that kills people.

...Many companies have incorporated drug testing as a standard policy for their employees and the results have proven to be successful for both the employees and the companies. Many employees are thankful that there company forced them to make the choice between being drug free or find work elsewhere. They feel better, are happier, show up every day for work, can make clearer/positive decisions, make less costly mistakes and have a more active life in general. If we legalize illegal drugs then we won't be able to perform drug testing for those drugs and marijuana albeit the mildest, is the most common drug used at the work place.

There should be absolutely no reason a private company could not test for drugs and not hire drug users, even if drugs were legal. There are many jobs where use of alcohol is a factor as well, like airline pilot.

Parents teaching their children to say no to drugs will work if we give it enough time.

It does work. A parent's example is the best teacher. But this has nothing to do with drugs being legal or not.

It may take many generations but there will be less demand for illegal drugs and that will lead to fewer dealers and fewer suppliers. Remember we are young in the use of drugs and are just now being better educated.

Hate to burst your bubble, but drug use is as old as civilization, and probably a lot older. It is actually the history of drug prohibition which is relatively new. From this article:

The history of nonmedical drug use, and the development of policies in response to drug use, also extends back to the early settlement of the country. Like alcohol, the classification of certain drugs as legal, or illegal, has changed over time. These changes sometimes had racial and class overtones.



According to Mosher and Yanagisako, for example, Prohibition was in part a response to the drinking practices of European immigrants, who became the new lower class. Cocaine and opium were legal during the 19th century, and were favored drugs among the middle and upper classes. Cocaine became illegal after it became associated with African Americans following Reconstruction. Opium was first restricted in California in 1875 when it became associated with Chinese immigrant workers. Marijuana was legal until the 1930s when it became associated with Mexicans. LSD, legal in the 1950s, became illegal in 1967 when it became associated with the counterculture.



Sounds like the whole thing has a lot more to do with politics than health.