Legalize What?

I read an article that was published in August of 2008 pushing for drugs to be legalized. The author argues his idea about the prohibition between the 1920's and 1933. He shows how the alcohol prohibition caused people to do more crime and as an end result alcohol had to be legalized because it just did not work. The author goes on to imply that illegal drugs are unsafe and disputes involving street drugs are solved by drug dealers with guns instead of doctors and court rooms. The ironic statements about this authors point of view and his solution to the "war on drugs" is that the drugs of choice have changed for this up and coming generation because prescriptions are the new way of getting high. Government regulated prescription drugs are now being sold as street drugs by doctors and drug dealers. How would legalizing drugs change addictive behavior? Although alcohol is now legal there is many crimes surrounding it, not to mention homelessness, prisons, and death are end results of legalized alcoholism. I don't want my children having permission from the government to be a drug addict and ruin their lives because unfortunately all these man made drugs are highly addictive.