Government cannot legislate personal choices. People will take drugs, gamble, smoke, have abortions, drink, and take same sex partners whether such choices are legal or not, and there's nothing the government can do about it. If the government wants to control drugs, it must make them as legal as tobacco and liquor. Then it could regulate the purity, eliminating one cause of death, and package them with a clean needle, eliminating another. Legal drugs would be as affordable as liquor, removing the need to steal. [continues 149 words]