problems with legalizing drugs

There are a lot of theory's involving drug legalization and crime rate. If you look at the statistics for the prohibition, crime rate went up until the year that alcohol was legalized again. Many people think the crime rate would actually drop as a result of drug legalization. Organized crime would certainly suffer if drugs were legalized. Gangs and foreign cartels would no longer have a product to sell without competition. Obviously there would be no drug violation arrests(possession or using). Theoretically there would be less crimes by drug addicts trying to get money for their next "fix." The drugs that they are addicted to would most likely be much cheaper and easily accessible. The problem arises that if all drugs were legalized there would be more addicts. Having a higher rate of drug addicts might cause more crimes as a result of people being too messed up on drugs. Studies have shown that drug users (including alcohol and tobacco) are more likely to commit a crime than non users. If legalized would our society be overrun and destroyed by addictions? The question arises, if legalized how many people would use addictive, potentially dangerous drugs. Would there be a significant increase if the drugs were made easily accessible. I'm not sure that is a chance that we should take. If use of dangerous drugs increase due to legalization would the amount of crimes eliminated override the amount of crimes created. perhaps, but would our society be a safer place. Many people believe that it would be. I think that we have to look at societies that have legalized drugs, and decide if we want a community like theirs.