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Also, by keeping it illegal, we cannot regulate it. This gives the cartels the incentive to create drugs that are so addictive that a user is compelled to do literally anything to achieve that high, no matter the price. With legalization, drugs can be regulated to ensure a limit on the high and we can control the high the user gets.

I understand that it was no different with Prohibition. Prior to Prohibition, upwards of a third of adults were in a continual stupor, which was the reason to bring it on. During Prohibition, moonshine was often 190 to 200 proof. It was legalization and regulation of alcohol that eliminated most of the problems.

by keeping it illegal, we cannot regulate it

There's the usual progressive screed dressed up in a pretty libertarian dress. The sunshine & rainbows theory that legalization=regulation=perfect resolution. Colorado and Oregon have both legalized pot and both have admitted that they have no idea how to regulate or control it. Then on top of that the Drug Cartels aren't mysteriously nor magically dissolving. Marijuana isn't a 32oz soda in NYC, it isn't a harmless rainbow drug.....and the gov't making it illegal is no different than the gov't saying incest is illegal. But then again it's hard to ague with so-called conservatives who have allowed creeping progressivism to influence their beliefs.

With legalization, drugs can be regulated to ensure a limit on the high and we can control the high the user gets.

You're dreaming. Non-users will get the drugs and sell them to users.

And back before Prohibition, opioids were a frequent ingredient in “patent” medicine, and especially used by women. Mother’s little helper in those days. Freud spoke in favor of the pain killing effect of cocaine.

The fact is, many people are in pain, both physical and emotional. There is no such thing as a non addictive pain killer. The trick is to help people reduce and eliminate their physical and emotional pain. Nicotine addiction is very hard to overcome as many know. I went through a training program with Dr. Daniel Casriel (founder and clinical director of the Daytop Village, NY, program for addicts and alcoholics) who used many of the same approaches publicized by Arthur Janov in The Primal Scream. In the waiting area where new patients congregated the cigarette smoke was so thick you could cut it with a knife. Later in an advanced training group of professionals and paraprofessionals who had processed many of their own issues with Casriel, I noticed there was not a single smoker.