Yeah. They should sell crack at walmart. It would be really cheap then. And such a better society.
More than likely. The so-called "War on Drug" has not stopped the flow of drugs - although it has made a lot of "respectable" people a lot of money. The flow of laundry money through the Chicago Mercantile Exchange is in the billions. It destroys lives and funds crimes. It also, by driving drug use underground, makes it more difficult to tackle the problem of drug abuse.
The knee jerk reaction of "I think drugs are bad so they should be illegal" is just that - a knee jerk unthinking reaction. And the imposition of thugish cops and confiscatory "forfeiture" laws with no recourse to recover illegally seized property is the stuff of horrors. My nephew had his truck seized when a person he knew in his apartment complex got busted for dealing - he never got his truck back, but still had to pay it off. In another case the city wanted a piece of land which the owners would not sell. So they staged a drug bust and parked an APC in their living room. No drugs were found.
The so-called war on drugs has not stopped either the use or sale of drugs. However, it does provide a great way for the "well connected" to use the authorities to shut their competition down. And the CIA is not called the "Cocaine Importation Agency" for no good reason. Illegal drugs, along with other criminality, fund a lot of their black operations. The drug wars and drug gang killings, like bootleggers - such as Alphonse, Scarface, Capone, create crime they do not stop it. Legalization in an instant does away with all the drug lords, all the killings, the need for totalitarian police, hundreds of millions in prisons, and on and on. It also puts the problem where it should be - in the hands of counselors and treatment centers, along with public education about what drugs do to a person.
So, tell us about the wonder of the war on drugs and how successful it has been. Drugs are now more available than they were during "The Summer of Love".