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.
What about polution? Things aren’t so bad now but back in the gray triangle days of the rust belt there were plenty of “innocent bystanders” paying for US Steel’s profits.
Clove smokes aren’t illegal, at least not federally. But even if they were, it’s not the demand that leads to violence, it’s the black market. If you ain’t smoking it somebody else will.
I gave up pot a long time ago, scotch tastes better. But that doesn’t mean drug laws aren’t stupid, and that doesn’t mean holding user accountable for what suppliers in a foreign country MIGHT be doing (don’t really know if joint X came from one of the cartels doing crazy stuf in Mexico or not) and wouldn’t be doing if there weren’t these stupid laws.
Your equivalency is all wrong. A drunk driver is actively doing something risky to others. A drug user (assuming they aren’t driving) is not. You’re using way too much contageous sin logic. Somebody I don’t know doing something I can’t control that might or might not (depending on the supply chain) be related to getting me that stuff isn’t my fault, isn’t my problem, and I’m not carrying the guilt for it. You’re waving around that same kind of universal guilt that people used for all Black Friday shoppers (and American capitalists in general) after the Long Island incident, their stupidity isn’t my fault.