Or is it ? There was an interesting program on the BBC a few years back dealing with this question titled "If… drugs were legal". In this program they explored

Or is it ? There was an interesting program on the BBC a few years back dealing with this question titled "If… drugs were legal". In this program they explored something not so obvious about legalizing drugs, namely that the pharmaceutical industrial complex would fill the market with many new drugs, think the current issues with legal highs but industrial scale. Another point is drug interactions are very unpredictable and very difficult to test. This show is probably available on the web somewhere, here's the bbc page about it: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/if/4075235.stm http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/if/4075235.stm