Most conservatives or right-wings worldwide oppose psychoatives legalization, why such unanimity on this topic? I find it strange that there is such a consensus. Do you know why?
Personnally I don't know. They pretend to be for individual liberty/responsability while honoring for most westerners the so called freedom, but in fact are more like zealous little control freaks closer to ISIS in their way of thinking...
Only Libertarians get the concept of ownership of the body by the individual... it goes to whatever-sex to abortion to "drugs".
The major factor that oppose the legalization of drugs is that the impact on the health of its citizens which as we know is an asset to the government itself that the declining health and possibility for the growth of addiction regarding this will increase and results to the declining performance in their work which will put the economy in a disastrous situation.
As you see, there a lot of micro and macro perspectives regarding the effects thats why it should be carefully studied so it will not cause a great disaster with their decision. Im not really an expert regarding the effects of these drugs but I trust that they know best and it is up to them whether to legalize it (with moderation and only be used in medications) or not.
Yes, the state should take care of the health of its people thereby and increasing the economic level of development, and the legalization of drugs will have the opposite effect.