Thank You, Drug Prohibitionists for Making the Problem Worse

It's a well-accepted fact (or if not, it should be) that prohibition of drugs and the subsequent creation of a black market for these illegal products makes them much more dangerous than they already are. The criminal element associted with drugs make violence in dealers much more common (how often are liquor store owners shooting each other?). Furthermore, you never really know what the hell is in the drugs, which some heroin users in Chicago recently discovered by ending up dead.