I think that there is a better question you should be asking. In fact, you are asking the wrong question.

Let me ask you this: Has the war on drugs been a success, from your perspective, is it easy to procure drugs? Have the laws at all helped the people or rather hurt them?

Instead of locking drug addicts up in prison and have them stamped out of society forever as criminals, should they not be rehabilitated? And since drugs are easy to procure for anyone with a internet connection, we cannot say that the restrictions have actually stemmed the flow of drugs to the people.

What the laws HAVE done is make a quality regulation impossible. So anyone smoking Marijuana (which is a racist term invented to unjustly blame the Mexican people for the distribution of the drug) is in danger of inhaling deadly chemicals because the dealers do not care about their customers health and would even spray the drug with deadly research chemicals to make it appear to be more potent. Some even add shaved, microscopic bits of lead or sugar to their product in order to increase the weight.

Anyone who wishes to take drugs will be able to procure them easily. So the government should finally acknowledge this fact instead of putting their heads in the sand and legalize them in order to take away the profits from the mafia/cartel murderers and instead use the tax from the sales to fund rehabilitation and quality control.

Do you also have any idea how much tax money YOU are paying to lock up some pothead for years and years?