God help us if governments make drugs legal then illegal as a means of ensnaring more people into the system. We can say it's necessary because addiction is sky

God help us if governments make drugs legal then illegal as a means of ensnaring more people into the system. We can say it's necessary because addiction is skyrocketing, but if the response to a change is to imprison people, then how is that not a despotic scheme of monumental proportions?