If we don’t support them, they will turn to crime
No they won't - no more than alkies do to get their legal-thus-cheap drug. Legalization increases competition among suppliers, thus lowering price.
The price of drugs is way beyong the drug.
It’s wrecked souls, minds and bodies wrecking the souls, minds and bodies of all who come under their sphere.
Who is going to pay for their housing and food while they live high until they die? Who is going to house, feed and raise their offspring and fix the abuse they have suffered under the high ones? Who is going to imprision them when their highnesses kills and harms others as they live by their wrecked souls and minds?
If only the cost of drugs was the weed or the chemicals.