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In North Korea speaking out against the Dear Leader is against the law and punishable by death in a prison work camp, I suppose you're ok with that too? LOL, not even close to an analogy.  You do understand their "elective" process is somewhat different than ours, don't you? 
Just because something is "the law" doesn't make it moral or even right. The vast majority of vice laws are an affront to civil society.  That is your personal opinion, to which you are certainly entitled.  The majority of the population, as evidenced by current legislation and attempts or lack thereof to modify said laws, to, does not yet agree with your position. 


 

Several recovering addicts I know started with Lortab and never smoked pot at all. Others started with cigarettes and beer.  Several recovering addicts you know personally don't exactly determine a national average.  A friend of mine who died of a heroin overdose started with pot so.......


 

Crime is related to drug use because the law creates a black market in which organized crime thrives, not because pot heads Who said "pot heads"?  Is there any disagreement that the majority of drug related crime, especially violent crime, is related to hard drugs?
 are more likely to commit crimes. As an example, Colorado hasn't devolved into a hotbed of crime since they went legal, but drug related crimes in Florida continue to increase. Doesn't that sorta prove my point?
   Your "crackhouse" question is solved when usage facilities are legally available instead of forcing users into the underbelly of society.  LOL. You duck questions well enough to run for President.  If a crack house appeared next door to your house tomorrow, what would you do?
 Rather than worrying about illegal activities in your community maybe your should worry about why other people's pleasures are against the law.  Why do you assume that concern about the former precludes the possibility of concern about the latter? 

 

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Who cares how the laws are made, you've declared that just being the law makes it moral. It's clear that you feel your preferences should outweigh others, at least so long as you are in the majority. Paternalism at its finest, since you and your horde know best everyone must follow suit on pain of incarceration, even when their lifestyle would have little impact on you if you stayed out of their business. My personal actions are the same as they always are, advocate for legalization to bring those neighbors out into the light. It's people like you who cause their actions to be dangerous, but you won't see it. Instead you merely look down your nose at them and make an untenable and unwinnable situation worse. You, my friend, are a prime example of the evil lure of moral authoritarianism.

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