[MrLeRoy]

said populace doesn't need to wait for local LEO's to save them from interactions with said idiots

Addicts commit crimes to get the money for their expensive-becasue-illegal drugs. If drugs were legal, you'd have no more to fear from addicts than you do now from alkies.

[Axenolith]

When I'm sampling underneath a freeway overpass or offramp in San Francisco I am wary of both the addicts and alkies, because the former are disease ridden and strew their needles around and both are frequently raving, sometimes violent lunatics.

The cost of either groups crutch doesn't have anything to do with their mental state.