You can say no rational person would willingly go start a drug addiction, but people aren't always rational. People already jump through hoops to do drugs. Why

You can say no rational person would willingly go start a drug addiction, but people aren't always rational. People already jump through hoops to do drugs. Why do you think nobody extra would try them if was easier? People said the same thing about marijuana and inanely that legalizing it would help fewer people be addicted to smoking. Unsurprisingly though, legalization increased usage by 20%: https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/962353 https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/962353 Look at the history of the opioid crisis. It really started becoming a crisis when oxycodone became easy to get a prescription for. Pill mill doctors would give out hundreds of prescriptions a night to be spread through the streets, causing millions more to be addicted. If legalizing opiates helped, Purdue Pharma should have been one of the greatest benefits to public health, no?