Quite a few of these negative effects are the result of prohibition and criminalisation though. Prohibition plays right into the hands of organised crime becaus

Quite a few of these negative effects are the result of prohibition and criminalisation though. Prohibition plays right into the hands of organised crime because it keeps prices up. Let's not forget the victims of the war on drugs. In Mexico alone that war has claimed hundereds of thousands of lives in the past 10 years while at the same time deaths from drug overdose have gone up dramatically in the US. Something is very wrong with the response to this problem.