Technically, drug use isn't illegal and never has been. Drug use is protected by the U.S. Constitution. We have the rights to pursuit of happiness and religious freedom, both of which are violated every time an infringing law is passed or a citizen is arrested.
Because the war on drugs provides law enforcement jobs, provides agency funding and affects local economies, the Feds aren't going to shut it down until our enlightened young people get together and force it to change by using their voices and votes.
You've had a username for 4yrs and that, THAT, is your 3rd post? Unsure what's more ridiculous, that fact or the crap you just espoused about drug usage being legal. Drug usage de facto requires possession of drugs, which are illegal. I get the whole "constitution is the law of the land" and understand (and agree w/ you) that my right to happiness, if it so encompasses getting high at home,
is protected by the constitution, but the reality of our society is that LAW is the LAW(of the land), and it says you can only use several drugs (mostly shitty ones, at that!)
And the reason drugs are illegal is not some DEA/LE/prison industry conspiracy (though each has some sway over upholding the status quo); the reality is that much of the populace doesn't agree w/ the illegal drugs (save marijuana) becoming legal;
this is the point of it, hell if you're unable to see the correlation between the public's shifting attitude towards mj acceptance and the frequent (positive) changes in marijuana's legal status (medical or otherwise), you're missing the point.
/kinda on-topic: that^last point I made is why I fucking LOVE and have the utmost respect for mr. doblin and MAPS in general, because it's about shifting the public perspective paradigm; ppl are ignorant about drugs, and fear what they don't understand, particularly when the small amounts of drugs they are aware of, come packaged to them via the media in bad ways (not the media's fault, but sensationalism sells and an article about a crackwhore neglecting a baby gets more views than a piece on why needle exchanges are both humane and economically-sound) This is why i love spreading my own 'propaganda' (am I using that right?) via bluelight and other venues, to get the word out there, because the changes at the larger levels (policy levels) are directly related to public perception, since politicians (automatically and, some would argue, rightly-so) pander to the populace. So long as the populace wants drug users chained and caged, that's what the higher societal apparatuses(sp?) will do, so I sincerely view the 'fight' for acceptance not as an attack on those who profit off penalization, but as an ideological/philosophical discussion/debate amongst average citizens.
Apologies for any parts that were rambling, I've had a drink or two lol, but I think the point came across well enough