It does nothing to counteract the most harmful effects of prohibition: law enforcement resources squandered on crime associated with production/distribution, lo

It does nothing to counteract the most harmful effects of prohibition: law enforcement resources squandered on crime associated with production/distribution, loss of goodwill between law enforcement and "criminals" involved with drugs, convicted offenders losing basic rights and access to resources that would help them to come clean and contribute to society, artificially inflated prices that also lead to crime and divert commerce from other sectors of the economy, users ingesting tainted drugs or switching to more harmful but more accessible drugs, ...