The real question is not “Should drugs be legalized”?
The real question is “Where does the government get the right to control them?”
Suppose someone’s fairy godmother flew over this country one night and waved her magic wand and eliminated all drug laws from the books.
Suppose also you live next-door to me.
You wake up the next morning look over the fence, and discover I’ve got a massive crop of marijuana, opium poppies and coca plants growing in my back yard.
Do you attempt to make me get rid of them?
If so, under what authority?
whatever.
Does the government have a right to control child prostitution?