Back in the day, people did useless things to waste time. Should those things get illegalized like drugz too ... no.
We must learn more about spirituality in school. And psychology, and economics .. not advanced economics, but normal stuff. Learn to control the flow of time and life within ourselves. In our mind. That's where everything happens. And we learn nothing about it. No wonder people fall to addiction. One cannot judge the individual.
It's like miyagi says.. teacher say, student do. Cannot blame the student. Ameriga must learn to implement spirituality and such in schools. And calm down the eternal pressure cooker that is the free market. Get more in tune with nature. Then it has a better right to exist.