"If the government did not actively fight this, successful or not, would it cause the markets and illegal drug users to proliferate?" No. We have decades of ex

"If the government did not actively fight this, successful or not, would it cause the markets and illegal drug users to proliferate?" No. We have decades of experience on this from places like Portugal, The Netherlands, California, Washington State, etc. In fact, the opposite happens. The problem is that no one bothers to ever check facts before making assumptions about what will happen that fly in the face of the evidence, especially when writing laws.