When public disapproval to a behavior or an ideology in a society endures a number of years, it is inevitable that the reasons for dissatisfaction be modified and adapted to social evolution. The cultural, ideological, political and economic changes that have occurred in our societies in this century, together with the specific changes that the ban has created the problem that sought resolving, do perceptions of drug problem we have today look like little ones that initiated this conflict. Nor are the reasons then seemed prevalent today are made with the same conviction, having displaced the moral justification to the other medical. It seems as if the cultural transmission of rejection was independent of the causes that originated it. The same process occurs, in fact, in the perpetuation of traditions and customs. Are repeated regularly without information about their origins is necessarily known. In the end, the custom itself is justified by tradition. It is doing something because it always has been, or is prevented behavior because it has always been prohibited. As quoted in the first chapter of the book, forgetting the origin used to accentuate the intensity of the defense of tradition or a ban. Forgetting the real causes, there is only a sort of personal motive, beyond reason, and that becomes a 'faith'. When this happens social phenomenon of inertia on the intricacies or point, usually not more important. But when the taboo is deeply involved in the daily happenings of the community, becomes a force capable of transforming. The prohibition of drugs has changed society in fundamental ways that we will analysis. In particular, political structures generated to maintain the ban are such that have gone on to become a problem for themselves. The changes generated by the system both in the minds and in institutions, thus become new grounds which offer new justifications for the maintenance of the current state of affairs.
One of the most important changes that the ban has created, is to have managed to 'Drugs' is perceived as a problem. Against what would seem logical, the ban was introduced at a time in which there were no major problems with drugs and extra-scientific grounds. However, health problems generated by the restrictions on the manufacture and use of drugs and the criminalization caused by police chase producers, sellers and users have gotten the 'drug problem' is introduced and the public permanently , making it difficult to understand the difference between the problems of the substance and its use of the much more numerous than our drug laws have caused. Many authors and perhaps the most insistent Szasz them, who defend the theory of 'self-fulfilling prophecy' in regard to the worsening drug problem. According to them, the political, medical and moral society, supported by the media as amplifiers of your message, can create "problems" from previous reality not perceived as such. The case before us is certainly a blatant example of this.
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