So all the stock brokers doing blow, the workaday guy who smokes pot on the weekends, etc. etc. these people all obtain their funding illegally?
Not all obtain their funding illegally, but all are stealing; any employee who is impaired steals productivity from his employer. Many people who do drugs are talented and may still be able to function at a high level, yet below their optimum. Others, however, never did function that highly and they are reduced to abject conditions.
Pot is no better or worse than legal alcohol, from my point of view. I doubt that consumers of it need to steal except because they were too lazy or stupid to be employed to begin with. Still, use of pot, like alcohol, isn't an endearing quality and is not particularly conducive to maintaining employment when used injudiciously. Neither is it particularly healthy, same as booze.
Remember, biologically crack is no different from cocaine , so the ole 'psychotic violent behavior' doesn't stick as neatly as it does with say PCP.
Biologically?
Do you mean chemically?
I'd say not, as there are other substances, perhaps acting as adjuvants that enhance the uptake of the cocaine. The means of delivery is critical too. Smoking produces a more intense cascade of the drug to the brain than snorting; you could think of this as higher dosage. Many drugs have different effects at higher dosages, including psychotic episodes. All people react differently, so one person may become a raging psychopath while the other just tunes out when given the same drug and dosage.
Maybe I'm naive thinking that you could possibly engage in discourse with 'those folks' but who knows.
I don't really want to engage in discourse. I view this pretty much the same as any number of regulated and zoned businesses. My neighborhood is residential, hence I don't want a commercial enterprise nearby. I guess I could say that 24hr. convenience stores also draw a criminal element, just to be fair.
I don't really want to damn anyone but the drug dealer, while the other 18 could be ticketed for their drug use and encouraged not to come back lest they face a vagrancy rap. I don't particularly want to wait until these people do something to me or my property before action is taken. This is purely selfish and I'd be likely to call the cops if a bum decided to camp out on the sidewalk in front of my house as well.