You’re absolutely right! I mean, just take a look at alcohol and Prohibition. Legalizing alcohol after Prohibition didn’t do one thing to stop the violence related to bootlegging. I’m sick of hearing Tommy guns clattering in the streets as the rum runners battle over their turf...
Yours is a straw man argument.
Bootleggers moved on. To drugs, gambling, prostitution and worse. If you don’t hear or see the violence, then pull your head out.
If you use before changing the law then you are funding and supporting the most brutal, bloodthirsty and despicable criminals and share in the blame for the death and destruction of the druggies and their suppliers.
My son, a Border Patrol Agent, had many run in with cartels, too include Mexican Army soldiers on the payroll of the cartels. Been ambushed and injured, all by druggies coming north. So, like I said, if you want to use, legalize first otherwise you are supporting those that attack (and sometimes kill), our citizens, from Boarder Patrol Agents to innocent civilians on the street.