Alcohol prohibition, and then drug prohibition later, opened the doors to crime at an off-scale level compared to before. (Granted that it wasn't the same kind

Alcohol prohibition, and then drug prohibition later, opened the doors to crime at an off-scale level compared to before. (Granted that it wasn't the same kind of door-opening.) That X makes things worse for people in general just isn't strong evidence that governments will not do X. If you don't want X then you need to explicitly push back.