Nothing in recent years has been more upsetting than the sharp increase in the use of drugs among young. People have become so traumatized by the subject that any reasonable discussion of it has become well-nigh impossible. This is why I was particularly impressed with a speech made not long ago by a public health official at a large university, for he wisely avoided histrionics and went straight to the heart of the problem. He openly acknowledged that "the jury was still out" as to all of the physical effects that might result from using drugs, illegal and legal. At this point we simply do not know the full impact these drugs may have on our physical organism, and he urgently called for more and better research in this area. However, he went on to say at another point that "the jury was a…