Comment by _DeadFred_

I used to think like this. But lets take a different addictive habit that recently became legal. People were able to gamble pre-legalization, but hardly anyone I knew was addicted to illegal sports betting. Now that it is legal, I would say large amount of friends show very addicted looking behavior around it.

There is a reason why heroine used to be sold as cough syrup and over time became illegal. I know we want to say the war on drugs was all a war on minorities (and with pot it was), but have you looked into the history of people turning into junkies?