Legalize Drugs

Should we legalize illegal drugs, heroin, cocaine and the like?
I say yes. I think it would greatly reduce the crime rate in this country. If you can buy your drug of choice for about the equivalent cost of a bottle of booze or a 6 pack what need do you have to steal. What was a $500-$1000 a day habit is now under $30. You can stay high all month on your welfare and/or social security check. Yes addicts would be given some sort of welfare, along with the option any time they chose to take it to enter a rehab that along with detoxing them would also provide education so that when they got out they were able to find jobs and become productive members of society. Burglaries, robberies and prostitution will plummet dramatically. No more drive by shootings by dealers protecting their turf.
Another major upside would be in taxes. Instead of pumping billions of tax dollars into a war we can’t win, we let the dealers set up legitimate stores the government sets the prices and profits then taxes the dealers. Paying the welfare to the addicts and letting them give the money for legal drugs seems strange at first glance. However no longer are we paying for incarcerating people for possession or sale of narcotics nor the crimes they needed to commit to get them. That’s a massive saving in police, court and jail costs. The welfare we would end up paying would be nowhere near these costs not to mention the cost to society as a whole with injuries the innocents as well insurance and legal claims. This again would keep more money in the taxpayer’s pocket.
Some will say absolutely not it will just make more addicts. However using that rationalization alcohol should be outlawed just as it was during prohibition because according to the above thinking it makes more alcoholics