This is quite hilarious to people who actually know what they are talking about. We have in the case of China, an example of what happens when you *DON'T* make certain substances illegal. What came of it? A three thousand year old form of government overthrown, mass death and misery, and over 100 million dead from the upheaval.
What it has done is create an enormous black market run by murderous thugs in order to cater to an existing demand. A convenient byproduct is the destruction of the Bill of Rights and Federalism, something desired by statists on both the right and the left.
Which is somehow supposed to be worse than the enormous *legal* market ran by murderous thugs in order to cater to an exponentially increasing demand? Just how is the *FIRE* an improvement over the frying pan?
While we're at it, how about we look in on the little experiment that Switzerland tried in legalizing drugs in a specific park?
“The strange scene has been a fixture in Zurich for several years, tolerated by city officials who are convinced that drug use should be regarded as a sickness rather than a crime. Social and medical workers estimate that about 300 to 400 heavy drug users live in the park without shelter, toilets or showers, and that as many as 3,000 others pass through daily to buy and use drugs………..the midway of the grotesque carnival is a concrete path along the edge of the Limmat River, lined with makeshift counters covered with neatly arranged spoons, bottles of water and paper cups bristling with slender, disposable syringes. The crowd thickens as night falls and drug hustlers work their way through the sea of bodies clogging the path, calling out ''Sugar, sugar, fine sugar!'' when they mean heroin, and ''Cokay, cokay!'' for cocaine……..the other night, three men crouched under a park lamppost, dividing a white powdery pancake of heroin with a Swiss Army knife. Next to them, a woman lay in the dirt in a stupor. Four or five men were intensely working needles into their arms. A woman in a striped sweater probed for veins in one hand, blood streaming down her fingers, as a woman in leather pants and stained blouse wobbled past, a bloody syringe dangling from her neck.”
http://picturesandperspectives.blogspot.com/2009/04/switzerland-platzspitz-or-needle-park.html
Yeah, that worked out about like any sane person would have expected. It was such a disaster that even the Swiss figured out that it was a stupid idea.