If we don't allow honest, regulated and tax-paying business to provide high quality recreational drugs we are in fact giving an incentive for criminals to fill

If we don't allow honest, regulated and tax-paying business to provide high quality recreational drugs we are in fact giving an incentive for criminals to fill this market need. Our dumb war on drugs transfors a public health issue into a public security issue. Abusus non tollit usum: abuse does not take away use, i.e., is not an argument against proper use.