i agree with cigarettes but alcohol and other drugs wtf
Alcohol is either the first or second greatest cause of car accidents can't remember which. As for recreational drugs they are just extra medical costs for when someone is inevitably stupid with them
if you make alcohol and cigarettes illegal and crack down on their production then addicts will get their goodies by making shoddy, dangerous versions using home chems
this might not be as huge of an issue for tobacco since people would just grow it indoors, but alcohol? dude, when the US banned alcohol people started fermenting their loving furniture to make methanol. methanol is toxic, dude. i'd prefer to have alcoholics and not literal loving drug addicts dying of methanol poisoning
If they're that desperate they should get help. Considering the massive changes in technology I think we'd be able to keep this pretty low compared to back then. Most of the time drunk drivers kill sober people so if they get poisoned from their addiction then that's potentially an innocent life saved.
I don't know about other countries but with the amount of deaths it proves to me that Americans aren't responsible enough for it, but hey I'll never be in power so my opinion really doesn't matter.