Addiction

Hi Humans,
I can't understand why you humans with your big brains are addicted to so many things that are bad for you. Maybe if you were more like us dogs, you wouldn't be so foolish. Some addictions, like guns, you allow with a dangerously minimal restraint. With other addictions, like narcotics, you continue with the same ineffective restrictions endlessly. It seems like fashion and politics play a greater role than reality in making your decisions.
Some people oppose any restrictions on guns because they say if all the individual people have guns then they can all protect themselves from each other. Does that really make sense to you? That sounds like anarchy to me. Other people say that we should remove all restrictions on narcotics. Then the gangsters wouldn't be able to sell it illegally which would drive down their profit. They say the prohibition of alcohol led to the gangster alcohol business until prohibition was removed. Maybe that's a little naïve.
Let me make a suggestion. Why not make the various addictive gadgets and substances legal but with great government restrictions, licensing, control, and heavily taxed. This should include tobacco, all firearms, and narcotics. The sale or gift of any of those products outside the licensing control of government should be against the law and severely punished. The tax money should go completely to finance treatment programs, prevention programs, and law enforcement to correct and control  the addictions. The gangsters would try to make money by selling their products without paying the tax in order to undercut the legal sales, but the increased law enforcement paid for by the heavy tax on legal sales would fight them.
But what do I know? I'm just a dog.
Chloe