Yes, drugs can and will enslave you if you abuse them for recreation, however, if cocaine costs the same as aspirin, there is no motive for anyone to string you out on it and if you have a problem, society tries to help you instead of throwing you in jail when you have victimized no one.
Ultimately, the Common Law at the time of the Constitution's ratification and today is clear: you cannot have a crime without a victim.
This is a good rule, and one that we forgot when we let them do the whole war on drugs thing.
The main plant they had to get rid of to control us is Cannabis. It is better medicine, food, cars,gas for the cars, housing, and cloths. You simply can't control people with scarcity of resources when Industrial Hemp is around.