[eno_]

You are conflating a litany of errors: Alcohol has always been 90% of addiction and death due to use of intoxicants. This is true, with small variations, throughout the world and throughout history, no matter what other drugs are legal. And, if you think about it, this is also obvious: Hard drug use is such a minority pursuit, and it is self limiting, and hardcore addicts don't pay attention to laws, so laws are utterly doomed to make little if any difference in hard drug use. Ironically, your marijuana graph shows "success" in supressing what would be a more benign intoxicant.

[robertpaulsen]

"Ironically, your marijuana graph shows "success" in supressing what would be a more benign intoxicant."

I just picked the most popular (at 5%). "Benign" had nothing to do with it.

The graphs for hallucinogens, cocaine, inhalents, and heroin are similar.