Drugs aren't a victimless.
If you believe that, ask the families of drug addicts.
Legalizing drugs may work in theory Matt, but in reality? No way.
-Hedge
Zack, you are an intelligent person and I can personally assure you that after discussions with me, you would agree that legalization of drugs is a superior system both morally and practically.
List all the problems of drugs and I will show you that almost all of those problems exist because drugs are illegal, not the other way around. One argument in favour of making drugs illegal was that cocaine is cut with glass. Well, it is only cut with glass because it is illegal in the first place! I can list tons more examples like this.
The Fraser institute is one of the greatest think tanks in the world and they agree that the criminalization of drugs fails on almost every imaginable level. Think about prohibition: did it work? Definitely not, and all that this "war on drugs" is, is prohibition under a flashier name.
The thing is, you see the problems caused by drugs and ignore the many more problems caused by drugs that only happen due to drugs being a criminal matter. For every one point you make about how drugs being legal truly would damage a person, I can think of 10 things that are damaging which happen because they are illegal.