Is it because alcohol, tobacco, and firearms also have legal pathways? So they spend time tracking down cheats and checking/enforcing regulations?

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    Governments are organized according to political processes rather than rational ones.

    Even under ideal conditions, any (especially larger) organizational body is extremely difficult to keep from falling into these types of irrationality.

    We have many names for variations on the phenomenon. I’ll cite groupthink. You can fall down a rabbit hole on your own from there.