Yes, SKA, Sorry I did not see your last response.
I do approach this issue from a hard line don't I? I don't mean to sound like a bureaucrat.

I have I really have taken all your points into consideration. Not only from a first person perspective but from that of a friend, employees, co workers and family members.

I have taken these points into consideration more than once, more than this specific thread. The arguments just do not pan out.
I have tired of taking each individual variable and come to the same conclusions. Is it subjective, I guess some will view it as such. I'm not so sure I do anymore. Employees have failed me on many occasions, In return Me and all the other tax payers get to fit the bill for so many trickle down effects of drug use.

I have explored myself and being an artist I have seen a creative side. Much like steroids, I would like to take credit for my own work and not say a drug influenced my creativity.
I would like to think that people in their own homes could safely use, experiment, and enjoy some mind altering substances without ill effects on society, but I do not see it that way. To the contrary, I have seen it the other way...literally.

I will go on paying my dues to Government foundations that support these lifestyles. Becasue I have to by law. In at least our country, we all are required to. This giving rise why people should open their eyes and realize it requires so much more of themselves and NOT just the health and lifestyle of one individual.
I will go on paying, not monetarily as I see many of my acquaintances lul through life in their fog. Meanwhile attacking other drugs, alcohol, cigarettes.... along with the "Big Brother" stomping out your freedoms approach to validate their own vulnerability.

Are their exceptions?
There always are!