True but the effect is likely to be fairly small. It&#x27;s probably better to compare legalization of most drugs to the end of prohibition. That saw a collapse in crime and incarceration rates back towards (although admittedly not all the way down to) pre-prohibition levels which only picked up again with the war on drugs.<p>If you don&#x27;t trust that comparison, how about looking at the actual real world effects seen recently in Western countries such as Holland and Portugal that have tried this.