Don’t worry, once they’re legalized and the government attempts to regulate them then the cost will go back up. Do you think that if the government starts dispensing heroin and meth rations that the cartels will all die? There will just be a new ‘war’, a capitalist competition war between the government dispensaries and the cartels. The supply will simply increase more, which is a good thing I guess.
Actually the US government is pretty serious about crimes against the US government.
For example, when bank robbery went from a crime against private citizens to a crime against the government that insures banks, bank robbery pretty quickly went from a professional criminal’s crime to usual an amateur’s crime.
So if the US government decided to tax and regulated various drugs, they would pretty quickly run other criminal organizations out of that business. They certainly did when prohibition was ended.
But as prohibition shows us, professional criminals will likely find other ways to make money as they quickly did after prohibition ended.
No. Drugs would remain a serious, serious problem. I don't deny that. My concern is that life for the rest of us is becoming harder and more dangerous with the stupefying increase in governmental powers allowed by the attempt to control drugs.