While I support the decriminalizing of drugs, I also have to question how effective it would be if all drugs were decriminalized and became highly regulated. E

While I support the decriminalizing of drugs, I also have to question how effective it would be if all drugs were decriminalized and became highly regulated. Example 1: prescription drugs are highly regulated, yet their legal availability has not stopped criminal activities surrounding the illegal trade. Legalizing may solve some social issues relating to the war on drugs, but not all. Example 2: alcohol is legal, easily available, and has a (proportionally) low amount of illegal trade. On the other hand, a lot of people do illegal stuff when impared by it. Perhaps some drugs should not be legal, particularly since there is worse stuff ou there. On the other hand, you have example 3: tobacco. Reasonable precautions taken, its main issue is self harm due to the impact on health. While there are obvious reasons to regulate its use (e.g. people frequently smoke in environments where it can harm others), do we really want to regulate self-harm? Perhaps we should be regulating based upon the drug, keeping some illegal, rather than pursuing blanket legalization and regulation. Edit: an occurance of legal should have been illegal.