But I love money more... it buys me weed.
Take drugs, don't take drugs. Doesn't bother me, up to the individual. Personally it just doesn't interest me, and never has. *shrug*.
It's seems to me drugs are so deeply embedded in your life, someone else enjoying life without any need to take drugs just doesn't register in your tiny brain. Cannot happen. Does not compute. Malfunction. Something must be wrong with them.
Sad.
As long as you live in your own little paradise apart from all the crack head users, and dope fiends, and rap music gang parties and stuff? Drugs seem to go along with these thinking disorders especially of younger people before they actually grow up. But it causes harms to people who have to live in the low rental places, as these drug users seem to end up there, and they seem so intent on doing their drugs and other foul things, that anyone who wants to live in a quiet place is somehow in their way, and they seem to have thoughts of murder.
But sure, as long as it doesn't enter into my life, or as long as I am not aware of these problems, then go ahead and do the dope or don't do the dope?
There are elderly people living in abusive apartments, where other people push their drugs and threaten violence, where they keep the doors locked and don't go out at night.
Then there is the crack users, whose filthy smoke is like pooring pure alcohol down the throats of the neighbors against their will, just from breathing a whiff of that crap.
You seem to be equating marijuana use with inner city gang problems, blight and hand-in-hand with crack, etc. Marijuana use happens along all social spectrums from the White House (Willie Nelson) to inner city crackhouses. Whatever underworld unpleasantries are associated with marijuana could easily be eliminated by legalizing and regulating it. Take out the profit incentive. I still won't use it when it is legal in my state unless a medical problem necessitates its use.
One of the main problems I see with marijuana, is that it goes into the air, for other people in the building, or nearby to inhale, and it is an intoxicant and it is a toxin.
There are people with health problems who may have their health negatively effected by other people smoking pot, who also show no regards for others in the building; and if they legalize it, then they would blow pot smoke in the face of the afflicted. Pot smoking and bad thinking disorders seem to go hand in hand.
It is similar to forcing someone to drink straight alcohol from a bottle against their will. It is toxic and it is an intoxicant.
If they do legalize it, then it should only be allowed in certain places, but not in buildings or near to other people who want nothing to do with it.