Ahh, prohibition! Isn't it great?
This is so much better than legalizing heroin, cocaine, and so on, and regulating their production and distribution via licensed dispensaries.
What's the fun if drug use doesn't involve a little high stakes Russian Roulette?
Plus, under prohibition, we get all the exciting news about drug-related gang turf wars, and the property crime that goes toward paying for drugs...
And society gets to pay through the nose so that first responders can whizz around all day long to fentanyl overdose after carfentanil overdose!
Government is so smart. It just does the best, most smartest thing all the time.
After all, we don't want to "send the wrong message" by legalizing and regulating drugs, do we?
That would be awful. It's far better that people who use do so in full risk of their lives, some as prolific property criminals, each contributing financially to the growth of violent black markets that negatively affect entire communities.
Like I said: Smart!