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No, of course not. My view of the world does not have room for negligence or harming others.
And there's the rub, of course. Very little that we do affects only ourselves. What is the difference between the negligence of letting food be contaminated and getting so high you decide to drive a car and end up plowing right into a family car, killing everyone inside? I understand that at that point you'd say to prosecute for the bad decision to drive while high, drug use or no, but this isn't much consolation for the loved ones of the people who died. And unfortunately, as a society we don't generally do a very good job of looking at the potential consequences for our actions. A nation full of drug abusers with no external motivation to stop until it's too late would not be a good place to live.

I'm not saying that I know what the solution is. I've seen my wife being treated like a criminal just to have the drugs she needs. It's really terrible and the system isn't working the way it is. I don't think there are any easy answers, unfortunatly, and that is very sad.
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-Jeff
Rome did not create a great empire by having meetings; they did it by killing all those who opposed them.