How the fuck do people accept the kind of reasoning used against decriminalization?

We believe this drug is too dangerous for you to use safely, so to protect you from any adverse effects we're going to throw you into fucking prison and ruin your job prospects for the rest of your life if we catch you using it.

Like what the actual fuck? Of course, maintaining a pool of legal slaves is the entire goal, but it baffles me ordinary liberals continuously fall for it.