text: I have used them, and struggled with addiction, and overcome it. I lived in poverty, and overcame it. I've lived all over the country after spending much of my young adult life in church. I've gone from a devout evangelical to a staunch atheist (now firmly agnostic). I'm not remotely a deadbeat drug addict but as the child of drug addicts (one of whom died of a drug overdose) I know a thing or two. Your hard-liner "war on drugs" approach objectively causes harm and does little to keep your precious children away from drugs.
  
  Good parenting to me means that children should understand that things like drugs and sex are probably the best things they'll ever experience – and in that lies the dangers. It's important to live a life where you do not depend on any substance or activity for your happiness but rather find your enjoyment in things like your relationships, working hard, and doing well to others.
  
  If you asked your kids what being high was like, what would their answer be?