If you want to see real dopers, go to a small pharmacy just before opening time on Monday (like the one on my block). You'll see them, ghost white, shaking lining up and yanking at the door every minute. They sit on welfare/disability and eat mind-numbing pills all day (also paid by the taxpayer). Most pharmacies deliver nowadays so you don't see as much as before. The lines used to go around the block with neighbors complaining about junkies.
You can see the same thing at a liquor store at opening time. The only difference is the liquor isn't free.
Alcohol/pills are toxic and physically addictive so most of these people will be forever useless. I would prefer them to use pot since most people can quit pot in one day without any withdrawal or damage. Pot can also be grown cheaper than basil or for free as a potted house plant. Right now hundreds of billions in taxpayer funds go to big pharma to feed the Rx addictions.
Let’s see what happens in Colorado. I suspect you are wrong. My guess is that the stoners will find a way to get the Democrats to pay them to not work.