Should drugs be banned in United States

Well lets start of by me explaining how other countries who have legalized all drugs, Portugal. Portugal's crime rates have plummeted, contrary to popular belief, Portugal drug usage rates, (drugs addictions per 100,000 people) is lower than the United states.Also take into account how the U.S has a costly 'war on drugs' and in the end the 'war on drugs' benefits three categories of people and three only. The cartels, using a simple economic theory of supply and demand we can accurately assume what would happen if drugs where to be legalized in the United States, at the current state of the nation with drugs being illegal there is a demand but not enough supply, another economic theory called inflation can explain and be used to create a thesis. Lets say there is 200 people who want weed, but the cartels can only smuggle weed for 50 people, the cartels can now take advantage of this and raise the price because there is lack of competition, this is know as price fixing, and the addicts will literally do anything to feed there addiction, this is what leads to muggings and assault so that thew addicts can get a source of income.Now lets jump to a scenario where drugs are legal and weed is freely traded across the markets, the same 200 people want weed, the cartels cannot monopolize industry because there is a level of competition in the markets due to many new dealers and pharmacies selling weed. there is enough supply to meet the demand, prices will be lowered because new dealers have to compete in the markets and keep prices down so that they will not get outsourced, addicts will not have to mug people or steal to get money because the price of drugs will go down. Price of 5 oz cocaine in USA 700-100 U.S.D, price of 5oz of cocaine in Portugal 30-40 U.S.D. The 'war on drugs' fails to produce results and just perpetuates the drug industry, let me use a example, Mike is a drug dealer, because of the 'war on drugs' he gets 4 years in prison and a felony charge.Mike gets out of jail and decides he wants to turn his life around and become clean. Mike files a application to work at a company but guess what? He is denied a job because he has a class 1 felony conviction on his record.Unable to find a job and is running out of places to live Mike goes back to the only source of income he can get, selling drugs. A full ban on drugs in the United States is unconstitutional, the 10th amendment to the constitution reads,"All powers not delegated by the constitution to the government, are reserved to the state and the people, respectively." A nation wide ban on drugs contradicts the 10th amendment and contradicts the foundations of a free society.But a drug legalization is also against the 10th amendment but it is not against the society that the founding father had envisioned. Benjamin Franklin once said," Once the federal government starts controlling what the people can and cannot do with there own persons, the people will soon be in a worse state than if the government wasn't involved." I encourage a good debate and I hope I can open your eyes or expose you to a new way of thinking, and I am not a liberal btw. *Drops mic*