The idea
If you want to boast you live in a free country, you can't have laws proscribing recreational drugs.
Admit that there's a recreational drugs industry, regulate, tax and control it just like we do with alcohol and nicotene.
Why gift a whole industry to thugs and morons, tax-free?
It's insane.
Why is it important?
Billions for the exchequer in extra revenue.
Billions saved fighting "the war on drugs", which we'll always lose.
A whole new industry with proper jobs and responsible people in charge.
Complete disfranchisement of the thugs and morons that run a huge swathe of the black economy.
Or we can continue the current stupidity, where the two most dangerous things about using drugs is 1 – it can get you thrown into jail, and 2 – you can't guarantee or know the quality or strength of the drugs you're buying.