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“Drug use is wrong because it is immoral and it is immoral because it enslaves the mind and destroys the soul.” -James Q. Wilson

It doesn't follow that because something is "immoral" it should be illegal. Furthermore, it doesn't follow that making it illegal because it is "immoral" means that the resultant state of affairs will be better for society. What James Q. Wilson said about "drug use" is exactly what Carrie Nation and others said who, working in concert, brought us both Prohibition and the income tax, neither of which have been very good for society.

The first was bad because it resulted in an even greater use of alcohol, the creation of true interstate and international organized crime, and a general disdain of law. The second was bad because, being used as an excuse to replace federal revenue lost from liquor taxes, it has led directly to an expansion of government spending that has never stopped and that now literally endangers the very life of the nation. And all this because some do-gooders wanted to enshrine in law their own particular view of how other people should live.

They wanted to use law to retrofit society for their idea of paradise.