Not to mention the tax payer money spent to find, arrest and incarcerate people. And you can tax it like booze.
I remember a comment being made at a Makers Mark distillery tour (I live near there) about the taxes on hard alcohol. The taxes are enormous before it is even put in the bottle. If the only taxes on booze were the same taxes on all other consumer goods, a “Family sized” bottle of Makers would go for probably around $15 instead of the $47 in Kentucky and, IIRC, $65 in Washington state.
Dope is just another way for the dems to control the masses.