It has been a while since I've spent any significant time watching commercial TV, but every year around MLB Playoffs time, I catch up on those products for which Madison Avenue is trying to create demand. Is it just me or is it a little oddly hypocritical that a pharmacologically active drug like beverage alcohol is still being aggressively marketed to youth as inseparable from fun... from being in with the "IN" ...crowd? How can anyone be honest and still respect an economic paradigm that sanctions such ill-advised, crass commercialism in promoting the substance that is the causal agent of a huge national health problem like alocohol abuse? You can't. That's just it. I'm not recommending prohibition, but I'm solidly in favor of an honest, equitable approach to all drugs in social policies. I favor strong regulated advertising restraint for the good of all. Especially predatory are those ads targeting youth and calculated to exploit their naïvité like the current Captain Morgan Rum Cooler ads saturating everything, everywhere. I also support the rigorous and immediate decriminalization of marijuana in all its forms. To do otherwise is truly hypocritical. Such statutory dishonesty will ultimately lead to a dismissal of substance laws in general by young people.This is why I believe strongly that this double-talk is at the center of our muddled, contradictory drug policies. Until it's resolved honestly, young persons will continue to be ill-served by misinformation and confused public messages. One can't make a healthy, informed choice either to abstain or to partake in such a foggy atmosphere. What else is new?