Tell that to the people whose homes are broken into to steal items to fence them for drugs, the families whose lives have been impacted forever by a high driver who ran into their children's cars and killed them, the women who become prostitutes to pay for their drug habits, etc...
Addiction is a factor in many criminal activities and there is much negative fallout that effects society directly.
Tell that to the people whose homes are broken into to steal items to fence them for drugs, the women who become prostitutes to pay for their drug habits,
Those crime problems are greatly exacerbated by drug criminalization, which hyperinflates the cost of drugs and thus the motivation to commit crimes to pay for them.
the families whose lives have been impacted forever by a high driver who ran into their children's cars and killed them,
People who now avoid drugs because of their illegality would under legalization still not commit the still-illegal act of driving impaired - so there would be little to no rise in drug DUIs. And alcohol has been involved in many DUI deaths, yet we rightly haven't deemed that sufficient reason to ban alcohol.
Good post. And legalization would only make the problems you described worse.