Soooo, never?
Perhaps, but given the cannabis situation, it seems like public opinion is moving in the direction of legalization.
1) Workforce. If your workforce is content with being drugged up or starts to slack off because it likes to get drugged up, then your economy suffers. We don't have to talk about catastrophic rates either--but even 10% may be unacceptable to the US.
You realize that addiction rates have been the same since the start of the War on Drugs?
2) Parents. They don't want their kids doing drugs. And because parents are going to keep happening, you'll find that they're going to keep most drugs banned. Some stuff, like weed, the soft stuff, that may eventually be legalized. But not the hard stuff.
I don't see why this has to be the case. Alcohol an cigarettes are legal, and people don't want kids doing those substances, either.
There is no proof, that I'm aware of, that these drugs are any cleaner or better than the stuff you see on the street.
Well, I guess you didn't hear about the time the FBI analyzed drugs on online markets and found them to be relatively pure. See this excerpt specifically:
Samples of these purchases have been laboratory-tested, and have typically shown high purity levels of the drug the item was advertised to be on Silk Road.
But hey, who needs actual data when you can just make spurious claims with no evidence?
The only upsides to the darknet drug market, was that it allowed you to purchase drugs easily and relatively anonymously between bitcoin and darknet technologies.
The Washington Post disagrees with you.
...Fun?
Yes, fun.
Sorry, but while people might get a thrill out of buying drugs, I don't see how going through the process in and of itself, generates any sort of fun.
Some illegal drugs are fun, otherwise people wouldn't be taking them, would they?
The only enjoyment someone would get is either because they enjoy snubbing their nose at authorities or the anticipation of getting drugs.
Also, doing them is fun. Ever tried alcohol? Pretty fun, right? Well, believe it or not, it used to be illegal.
This has nothing to do with the drug net markets.
Yes, it does. If you were paying attention, you would have noticed me explaining that darknet markets are contributing to the wider usage of harmless drugs while reducing the proliferation of dangerous/adulterated drugs, which is contributing to a shift in public opinion about drugs overall. The only reason weed is slowly being legalized is because more and more people are smoking it, and realizing that it's not such a bad drug.