I do think it's important to consider what you mean when you say 'drugs'. Alcohol is not the same thing as weed, which is not the same thing as heroin. Putting all 'drugs' together in one category muddles up the conversation, and this is worsened by separating them into legal and illegal in ways that don't really make sense.

While I'm not necessarily all in favor of weed, for example, I'm convinced that legalizing it, simply because of its properties, will not lead to even a fraction of the deaths that legalized alcohol use does.

It's difficult to discuss any kind of position when we use a term as vague as 'drugs'.