Again, you need to look a bit farther back into history. These drug "bans" as you call them caused the usage to soar, not drop off or remain even close to the same.
Your opinions about users in general are just that, your opinion and I am happy to let you have them.
The lessons learned when Prohibition was tried with booze should have taught us as a people something, sadly they did not. They just left a bunch of feds looking for jobs and we should have just fired them and been done with it. Instead we invented a new problem for them to solve. It is the same with firearm laws, if no one is breaking the current laws, we will just make newer, harder to abide by laws for them to deal with so we can continue to have our BATFE jobs. Before prohibition machine guns were sold at Sears. After it you needed a stupid stamp to get one plus you were subject to search and seizure at any time according to the paper the stamp sticks upon.
Drugs Laws have done exactly what Prohibition did, created a huge, RUTHLESS black market as well as spawn a whole host of other crimes so that people can feed their habit. As the costs of those habits soar, crime soars in general. Just like what happened during Prohibition. Those who sell have territories to defend and when one area looks like it makes more than another one, someone wants to take it over and gangs fight in the streets for the territories that make the most money, just like during Prohibition. You can see where this comparison goes...
In the end, the reason why drugs were so easy to ban versus liquor is not as many people even cared about drugs but nearly everyone took a drink now and then. Now, kids are doing drugs for the allure of being "bad". Teens so they can lash out and blaze their own trail against their parents. Adults because they just want to unwind and face it, booze only winds you up.
Time to change a lot of things. So many of these things are also why we have so many gun laws too. The War on Drugs is and always will be intertwined with the War on Guns. If you don't believe that take another look at gun laws before and after Prohibition. THAT'S when things started going downhill for gun owners.
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