"Take alcohol as an example. If alcohol were illegal, I believe that it would probably be abused less by children."

I have to disagree your statement. Alcohol is illegal for children. Therefore it becomes a 'right of passage' into adulthood and something a child can't wait to do. In other countries where a child drinks wine at the table along with adults, he's more likely to want a soda pop. It's no big deal. I've never met anyone yet who really liked their first beer, glass of wine, etc. A child's tastes are going to gravitate in different directions. In such countries they have less incidents of alcoholism statistically than we do.

We call ourselves 'the land of the free'....let's really live free and accept responsibility for our own actions instead of having the Government choose for us.