I lean toward legalizing or decriminalizing pot, but I can't see how they could do the same for most hard drugs and especially prescription narcotics.
Is the FDA going to approve meth? Will there be quality control on cocaine, heroin processing? How do you legalize oxycontin, etc? POT's a little different and much simpler.
You are acting like legalized hard drugs in the United States is some sort of strange, untried bizzare concept. Not true at all. Hard drugs were legal throughout most of American history and the “drug problem” (including sending teens to prison to be gang-raped for selling these goods) such as it was, was much less than today.