people take drugs and don't end up as junkies. The average ecstasy user in NSW is of above-average socioeconomic standing. It's much easier to demonise drug users than to understand them as human beings. The risk you run with the latter is that you might actually start to empathise with them, or at least find yourself questioning the premises of the war on drugs... It's easy to throw heroin junkies in gaol, but much harder to do so for well-educated, productive young adults... When was the last time you saw an ad throwing a university student in gaol, claiming that serious steps have been made to eliminate the "scourge of society"
