All drugs should be legalized (or decriminalized)

I, as a more radically minded individual, believe that all drugs should be legal. My argument is almost certainly in the vast minority, however, I think I can justify my position. Let us begin with the ever growing issue of marijuana legalization. Ever since CO, as the experiment state, legalized marijuana for recreational use, crime rates have since gone down, drugged driving has gone down, and overall consumption of the drug has gone down. I recently read an article where cartels in Mexico have recently stopped ordering farmers to grow marijuana because it is not profitable anymore due to widespread legalization (both medically and recreational) and decriminalization. Everything opponents of legalization feared when CO first legalized pot have turned out to be non issues. Like I said, opponents claimed crime would skyrocket, along with unemployment and drugged driving (It is hard to statistically back up the claim of less drugged driving because Marijuana stays in the blood and urine for about two weeks. Drivers who are drug tested may have not smoked pot in over a week and be completely sober, however since they would fail a drug test, it is counted as drugged driving. But, since less people who are pulled over are failing drug tests, there are less drugged drivers, and this also means that marijuana use as a whole has indeed gone down). Unemployment in CO is actually well under the national average causing the state to have one of the 15 lowest rates in the country. Marijuana, in my eyes and my generation's eyes, should absolutely be federally legal. Now onto the harder side of the debate, the rest of the drugs. I know I am in about a 10% minority on this one, but I believe legalizing all drugs is the way to go. If drugs weren't seen as "badass" and such a taboo topic in our society, they would be irrelevant, worthless issues. To create that type of atmosphere, legalization is necessary. In the United States, we currently have over 2 million people in prison. Take a moment to digest that outrageous number. That population is larger than the population of 15 states and DC. Over a quarter of all of those individuals are in prison for non-violent, drug-related crimes. By making all drugs legal, the government is no longer creating crime, therefore causing crime rate to significantly drop. I do not see the logic in locking up a college student for selling cocaine or amphetamines at a rave or a party. By criminalizing drugs, lives of individuals are ruined. Locking up individuals for dictating the management of their own bodies or for taking advantage of the law of supply and demand. It is ridiculous that the government is so desperate to have something as a scapegoat for all the crime in the country. The argument of morality cannot be ignored in this topic. I would like to argue that the current system is immoral, not legalizing the substances. As I previously mentioned, our country and its legal system are literally ruining the lives of "criminals" sometimes as young as kids. Should a 17 year-old who has a couple gs of pot on him with scale really be facing extreme charges? I fail to see how the current system of dictating individual freedoms and eliminating all aspects of free will is considered moral. Why can the government dictate what I do to myself? I am a huge individualist, and I believe in the right to dictate self. I am not hurting anyone by smoking a bowl or snorting a line (hypothetically speaking of course, I swear I am not a raging drug addict. I have never partaken in any substance other than marijuana and alcohol, and neither of them can be classified as frequent use by any loose sense of the word). It just drives me crazy that our freedoms are limited to an extremity, yet our leaders claim we live in the country with the most freedom. We can't marry who we want to marry, do what we want to do to our bodies, and everything we do is watched, monitored, and noted. We live in a land of hypocrisy, not freedom. I'm gonna go ahead and finish my round because I'll end up just ranting even more if I go further. I welcome anyone to a respectful debate, free of immaturity, with anyone who can intelligently debate with me. Thank you.