[William Tell]

Loyal Sedition said: "But total legalization would mean I could not work to stop the pushers from targeting those who I care about."

Are those you care about impervious to your attempts to stop them from BEING TARGETTED?

Are you helpless to stop those you care about from becoming alcoholics?

[Loyal Sedition]

Since we have all reached the age of consent, pretty much.
As the eldest child of a divorced family I got a lot of the task of attempting to keep them out of serious trouble.

Mostly successful until they went their own ways.

If hard drugs become fully legal, they will also be openly advertised, with seductive slogans and Madison Avenue sales pitches.
Pretty hard to overcome, look at some of the crap supposedly intelligent people legally buy now, unproven “Herbal” remedies, prescription drugs with forty-five second disclaimers, etc.
You would no longer be able to report the pushers to the cops, they would become “Upstanding business and taxpayers”.

Garbage like this makes me glad I never sired any kids!