A lot of bad things happen up stream in the supply chain of things we use every day. Whether it’s miners getting black lung to supply us with coal or steal workers losing body parts to the mill or fishing boats sinking or drug cartels having their little wars.
If God is going to hold all of the upstream “victims” of our various usages against us I don’t think any of us are making it to heaven.
The coal miner, fisherman, steelworker, etc takes risks for employment. In much the same way the drug addict takes risks for their own reasons. Yes I can argue there is a certain amount of “guilt” if you buy gold knowing that a large amount of miners die for large amount of gold mined.
The big difference is that US Steel don’t go out and shoot a six year old because she was in the way in a drive by shooting or the coal company isn’t going to kidnap a girl as a sex slave because you buy coal.
I don’t care about those who make bad choices as those who never get a choice. It isn’t even about drugs. Congress outlawed clove cigarettes sometime last year. Hell I used to love to smoke them and I think the law is stupid. But I am not going to go out and buy black market clove cigarettes and create a demand that leads to violence.
If you grow your own, fine but if you are buying your marijuana from a dealer knowing that most likely it is causing all sorts of violence and death up the supply chain then that is the most narcissistic act I can think of.
In fact I have more respect for the hard core addict who has to have the drugs than the social users who can take it or leave it.
To me it is much the same as the drunk drivers. Getting yourself killed is one thing, getting innocent people killed in pursuit of your own pleasure is one of the worse sins.