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I'm not making assumptions, pal. If you bothered to read for comprehension instead of for a point to pick at, you'd note that I'm speaking from experience. Long experience.
I went out to my favorite local bar one night some 7 years ago and played my rotation on the pool tables for my sponsor. After breaking down my McDermott cue stick, I went out and had breakfast with a few associates and found myself sitting across from a man I'd heard stories about for years and didn't know who he was.

Two years later, I picked up my local paper to find his face on the front page. Felony record - busted with a steamer trunk full of controlled substances and a butload of weapons including full auto assault rifles. He was such a nice guy at breakfast. Quiet. Kindof has that Goodfellas charm, he just happened to have a spread in Kentucky where he farmed pot and shipped it around the state by the truckloads to keep up with the demand of his Ahem "unaddicted" habitual customers. I'm sure he'd appreciate his drugs being cheaper. I'm sure he'd appreciate you legalizing his product so he wouldn't have to pay an army to gaurd his fields in Kentucky. I'm sure he'd also appreciate not being in jail so he could sell his product at will and destroy families with it in the thousands.

Does personal responsibility matter. Of course. But that doesn't in any way release our representatives from protecting the rest of us from addicts and "habitual" users and abusers. Dishonest is trying to ignore all these things and pretend this is a harmless little thing that affects no one and that in a perfect utopian world that would exist if it was just legal, all the effects on the persons would magically change because it would be legal for these people to use what's destroying them, their families and their neighborhoods. See, most of the damage does not come from the murderers that peddle the crap - it comes from the people who actually use the stuff and let it run their lives. But in your utopia, that stuff just doesn't happen - I keep forgetting. We have to gloss over reality and paint the rosey world that will be if the government would just see it your way. Oh, gee, how marvelous.

"that in a perfect utopian world that would exist if it was just legal.. "

That is funny, that is what i was thinking about people that make laws to create their own utopian world. Then they wonder why no one follows the law.
Something like seat belt laws... people don't use them lets make a law to make everyone do it because its best for them. Once you start down that road it is never ending.