I think the point on the violence being reduced is a good one. I personally am in favor of legalizing drugs and allowing market forces to compensate the changes in societal risk; for example for people who are convicted of driving under the influence their insurance goes up and eventually their license gets revoked. Alcohol and cigarette taxes funding outreach and education efforts etc.

Given the various occupy activity, and the quantity of money that drugs influence, it seems like the 1% would figure out how to move all that money to them if they could do so without risking being arrested, extradited, murdered, Etc. Perhaps an unintended side effect, or perhaps not, but until recently I hadn't given a lot of thought to who would benefit most financially from such a change.