At the risk of controversy-- and spoken as a ten year addict now clean for 25 years... I did not feel the motivation to get clean until I was made to fear the consequences of my own vile self centeredness, selfishness, and pain I was causing others and others in my own life. The stern judicial system played a strong role in helping me wake up.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kP15q815Saw 3 Arguments Why Marijuana Should Stay Illegal Reviewed - By Kurzgesagt

I've never used drugs and I hope I never will.

I would hope that legalizing drugs would make drugs cleaner to use (take the impurities away), the governments provide better health care around drugs and the problems they cause, benefit the good (medical) properties of drugs and help out people who use them instead of throwing them behind bars, giving them a chance to overcome their challenges and to even become a working part of the community and the country.

I know that one argument is about criminal activities involved in creating drugs and that they could grow if drugs were legalized. If they really grew in power through legalizing drugs, I don't know, what would be the best course of action.

I think it would be crucial to add resources in research about drugs. How do they affect their users and how to help making their every-day life better.