My hot take on all drugs is to just legalize everything to take that stress off the taxpayers & corrections systems. It's not like people are just gonna start using heroin, meth, or worse just cause it's legal now. Very very few people honestly do not try drugs just because they are illegal. It's more like there is two camps, people who want to get high (for whatever reason, therapeutic or recreationally) & people who wouldn't touch any drugs with a 10' pole. Legality really has nothing to do with IME. Focus on educating the youth truthfully about drugs & the bad effects abuse can bring upon your life. Then make very harsh punishments for know users committing crimes to feed their addiction along with decriminalization & I guarantee things wouldn't be any worse than they already are. Probably be better the more I think about it.
IME most addicts do not want to be one & would love to be a more productive member of society. Giving them a legal, safe way to get their drugs if they chose to continue usage would drastically reduce crime. Most of the so called "junkies" could easily get back into the workforce & contribute to society in a positive way if they had easy, safe, & fairly cheap access to their drug of choice. Then as a bonus you'd put a huge dent in black market drug trafficking by redirecting the funds it would normally get back into the economy & on top of that you can tax the sales of the now legal drugs. I could give another 100 or more reasons legalization of all drugs would not be this apocalypse of everyone turning into junkies & commiting all kinds of crime, but I'll stop here. The bottom line to me is things are so bad right now we're at the point people are using drugs that will rot them from the inside out (Tranq Dope), there is very little help unless you have someone rich front your rehab bills, very little job opportunities due to the stigma for anyone still looking for work despite an addiction, the police using the war on drugs to steal from people not even involved in any drug use or trafficking, etc., etc.. How much worse could it be if everything was just legalized & easily obtainable at clinics?