Go whole hog and legalize heroin/coke/meth/etc. The populace will be much easier to control.
There was a time when it wasn’t, and sure we had addiction problems but somehow it didn’t seem to blow up into a huge crime wave in addition to it.
Today, if all the bans went away, the stock of rehab centers would skyrocket, but the prison-police complex would go begging in penury.