Yes, there's harm from those drugs being available. However, criminalization hasn't reduced their availability.
Criminalization is very expensive. What are the benefits that we're actually getting?
I suspect that if that were actually true, prices would be an awful lot lower.
Like cars and booze, there are illegal drugs at pretty much every price point. (Crack created a lower price point option for cocaine.)
Yes, there's harm from those drugs being available. However, criminalization hasn't reduced their availability.
Criminalization is very expensive. What are the benefits that we're actually getting?