When you legalize harmful substances, you create commercial opportunities for them to be sold, which gives malicious actors unbalanced power to sway political a

When you legalize harmful substances, you create commercial opportunities for them to be sold, which gives malicious actors unbalanced power to sway political agents in their favor. Once a power dynamic emerges, it becomes difficult to undo it until it is too late, and individuals become statistics to be used as evidence for repealing legislation that made such a power dynamic possible.