Young people do not like parental control. Fine, but the same young people are quite willing to get drunk/high and let some substance control them!!! Why do they not see it? This has puzzled me since I was a young person.
The 70's were the days of rampant drug-taking(or whatever the term is) in the more elite institutions of learning. During fests, the auditorium would be full of smoke and the smell would not leave our hair and sweaters even after we got back.
Some of the erstwhile drug-takers have become respectable men(usually men) while a few have fallen along the way...really sad. Some have fallen and got up again and carried on bravely.