i have never seen the legalization of drugs as some kind of justice issue, and the idea that it is is an insult to the concept of justice. it's not particularly hard; if you don't want to go to jail, don't do drugs. the best arguent in favour of legalization is that it would reduce wasted police resources, and the idea is that it would cost less money on enforcement, but i doubt that's actually the case.

i'm really not interested in helping drug addicts. society has no reason to give a fuck about addicts. what i'm concerned about is strengthening laws that ensure that normal people aren't subject to the habits of addicts, who have no right to enforce their poor decisions on the people around them.

what we need is better case law strengthening the rights of non-smokers. landlords should be able to directly fine tenants for smoking anything inside, anywhere, and the fines should be substantive - $1000/occurrence. that would shut it down. there should be zero tolerance in case law for any sort of inside smoking for any reason, and complaints by tenants should overpower decisions by landlords. the right to fresh air should be enforced as fundamental law.

we have an ongoing public health emergency in our multi-residential housing complexes. there is no safe level of exposure to tobacco or marijuana. tenants should not be expected to tolerate even the slightest whiff of smoke from anywhere.

smokers should be expected to smoke in their cars with the windows closed.