“In a free society, if people want to harm themselves by drinking, smoking, and taking drugs, it is nobody’s business but their own”. Do you agree or disagree with the above statement? How should the government react to the abuse of alcohol and drugs by some Americans?

I don't know, I'm kind of stuck between the middle. If people want to do drugs and smoke and drink, it really is there own business,  just as long as they are of age and know the consequences of what they're doing, and also don't harm others. The government should react by just telling them to not hurt others and just keep in mind what they are doing might hurt themselves.

the committees of correspondence were the american colonies’ means for maintaining communication lines in the years before the revolutionary war. in 1764, boston formed the earliest committee of correspondence to encourage opposition to britain’s stiffening of customs enforcement and prohibition of american paper money. the following year, new york formed a similar committee to keep the other colonies notified of its actions in resisting the stamp act. in 1773, the virginia house of burgesses proposed that each colonial legislature appoint a committee for intercolonial correspondence. the exchanges that followed built solidarity during the turbulent times and bring about the formation of the first continental congress in 1774.