Ya think? It built the sort of criminal organizations we have now peddling the next profitable item when Prohibition was repealed.
Considering I will never get (short of winning the Powerball) to retire, and not because of MY drug use (nonexistent) but that of a relative, do not bother to try to sell me on the alleged virtues of any of it.
The only reason I do not like the Drug War is that it has been used as a convenient excuse to feed the habit of those addicted to something even more alluring than drugs: POWER.
Never did, never will - my point is the ills of criminalization. I think alcohol, tobacco, and pot should be legal and that people should be smart enough to use none of them.