You can make that same argument on enacting any law.
“You can make that same argument on enacting any law.”
The difference here is that enforcing the law makes things worse.
If you target relatively benign drugs, addicts will use toxic household chemicals that are legal but fry their brains. After abusing things like solvents/gasoline/paint, they can never be rehabbed.
People dying in the streets from huffing chemicals would be the result IF the WOD actually made any dent in the drug market. You cant stop it because countless people will always be willing to grow a plant that sells for more than gold. And countless people will risk jail/death to escape their sh** life. Even if the penalty is death...
You can make that same argument on enacting any law.
No you can't - in the USA, 2 in 3 murders get solved, whereas the fraction of drug "crimes" that even get detected is probably no more than 2 in 3,000.
Laws against consensual acts of adults fail because everyone involved wants the act to succeed and go undetected ... unlike, say, murder.
No, you can’t. Drugs are a commodity. Money. When you have a problem with money you get control of the money and you get control of the problem.