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Have you considered the fact that some, at least, of the effects you attibute to illegal drugs, are the result of illegal not the result of the drug? Define people to be criminals, push the cost of their intoxicant sky high with the black-market premium that gets higher the more ruthlessly the prohibition is enforced, and the users will be more likely to commit crimes. How many people commit robberies to feed their alcohol habit? Surprisingly few. Of course, there are bar fights with alcohol-fueled assaults and occasionally murders, but somehow we noticed that Prohibition was a lousy idea.

On your theory, 19th century America and Britain should have been awash with theft, robbery, burglary and assault to feed all the laudanum users habits, but somehow, they weren't, perhaps because laudanum (and other opiates and cocaine and marijuana) were all perfectly legal until the "Progressives" (remember them, we don't like them here at FR -- enemies of freedom, the source of all manner of baleful ideas for social engineering) decided to improve society's morals by banning them.

just admit you want to take illegal drugs an/or sell them. that’s the only reason you want this. you are willing to overlook vast numbers of people who take them get hooked and destroy their lives and others through crime and robbing the people that love them of the person they were, because YOU want to take one or more illegal drugs. and/or sell them.

Have you considered the fact that some, at least, of the effects you attibute to illegal drugs, are the result of illegal not the result of the drug?

That is exactly right, i think there is a limit to how far you can push and control people until it starts backfiring.

I don,t drink but i do smoke and with all of the sin tax on cigarettes i have to wonder if some of the younger people might steal to buy them.

I don,t like thieves so i wish the communist government we have would quit producing them, and i wish all of the Communists who votes them in would go to Cuba.

I am not up on history that much but have heard stories of 17th and 18th century England where even many of the clergy in the Churches closed their eyes to much that people did because of the high taxes and stupid regulations.