Unfortunately, drugs and alcohol have been at the root of all of America’s social problems since the beginning (see Alexis De Toqueville’s “Democracy In America”). If we legalize illicit drugs, ceasing to stigmatize them, we will have a nation of aenesthetized population who will demand that the government bail them out of their dysfunctional lives. That will mean the end of any hope for a liberty-based government.
The idea looks good on paper but falls apart in practical use...like communism.
That would be different how?
Seems the results of the last Presidential election suggest the public is already anesthetized.