Yep, the same things that occurred when alcohol was illegal, along with the other crimes committed due to alcohol being on the black market. There need to be harsher laws against those who harm others or steal the property of others. There would be much more asets devoted to apprehending, convicting and warehousing the rapists, robbers and murderers if we stopped protecting the dopeheads from themselves.
So do you favor the return of prohibition?
Of course, domestic violence would come nearly to a halt if women would leave a man the first time he struck them. It is a damn shame we have to spend so many tax dollars protecting the terminally stupid.
Let me now mention the drug war's effect on our constitutional protections. The power to tax is the power to spend ,or regulate, mentality really acceleratred with the 1938 Marijuana Tax Act . It recenly culminated with a Supreme Court decision allowing state and local bodies to utilize the power of eminent domain to confiscate your home for as shady a public use as simply increasing tax revenues. State laws on drugs are debateable, federal laws are unconstitutional. An amendment was needed to enact and repeal prohibition.