Allowing more drug users will be expensive. The taxes for legalization won’t begin to cover, especially with pot, the lazy masses that would arise and demand WIC/EBT payments quickly.
That’s easy to fix. Don’t pay them. You’re going to get that anyway. The big government conservatives and liberals have taxed, borrowed and spent the country way past the point of no return. Expensive entitlements, government granted monopolies, nation building, policing the world, micromanaging the lives of everyone, building and maintaining a police state, drug wars, poverty wars, literacy wars. Neither side will stop spending and there isn’t enough money to tax to pay for it. The collapse isn’t avoidable anymore. It’s no longer an ideological problem. It’s just math now.
Whether you like it or not, people are going learn to mind their own business. There just aren’t going to be the resources to be busy bodies on a national scale.