That's exactly what I'm saying. By reducing hard drugs to the same status that alcohol has, you are opening a hundred more doors for kids to lay their kid hands on them. And it's not the same if a kid stole a cigarette from his mum's packet and smoked it secretly, and if the same kid stole her dose of meth or crack. Alcohol and cigarettes are illegal for children here too, by the way.
This. Full legalisation would remove barriers that prevent more widespread everyday use of seriously harmful drugs, and the more mainstream and more easily available they become, the more fallout there's going to be - whether that's more getting into the hands of kids who think it's officially 'okay', the knock-on effect on healthcare provision, or greater incidence of people driving/causing public disorder under the influence. I'd hate to see hard drugs become mainstream commercialised. I'm not convinced tax here would be put into healthcare, social services or policing services, either, the emphasis on state spending is reducing the national deficit and keeping-up-appearances type spending like infrastructure projects and nukes.