Maybe you should examine the alternative before you conclude the grass is greener on the other side of the fence. People simply do not understand how bad it would be to have legalized drugs.
"Drugging a Nation" by Samuel Merwin (1907)
Again, the fire is not an improvement over the frying pan.
So, your assertion is that the USA was a worse place to live before we banned illicit drugs and that banning them has made it a much better place to live.