leave it up to the parents, make the parents responsible for it

Just like how leaving recycling up to the individual has absolutely solved the problem of pollution and waste and abstinence-only education solved the issue of abortion.

Respectfully, I disagree. It's good to educate young people, even if it's not 100% effective.

The real failing regarding drugs in this country was criminalizing marijuana so a handful of people could get vulgarly rich running private prisons and selling slave labor.