“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...
I’ll be 28 years sober off the booze this month, by the grace of God and AA. If Prohibition had still been the law of the land I’d have still been a drunk. Next to slavery Prohibition was the worst social legislation ever enacted. 100 years of a war on drugs, a ‘’domestic Vietnam’’ if you will and drugs are as plentiful as ever. Anytime America has declared ‘war’’ on some facet of the human condition we’ve ended up with more of what the ‘’war’’ was supposed to eliminate. War On Poverty created more of it. War On Drugs is doing the same. Legalize the crap and tax the hell out of it. Taxes are the quickest way to kill anything. And consider this. The odds of a 16 years kid getting served booze are probably about a 100 to 1, conservatively. Do you suppose drug dealers ask for ID?