However, people became addicted to that and other drugs and unproductive and so these drugs were outlawed.
Today, many people are still addicted to drugs and unproductive, the drugs are still outlawed PLUS there are drive-by shootings and little old ladies are getting mugged, because enforcement keeps drug prices high.
I don't think the strategy is working.
(Or, as the idea was dramatized years ago on the HBO series "The Wire", Hamsterdam?)