"You should have them move into your neighborhood. In fact, if you have enough money (to pay for the moves), your local police will tell you were they have a bunch of them."
What's your point? Do you think there's no pot in your neighborhood? Do you think there's no coke? Do you think drugs exist only in the 'bad' parts of town? You're comment added nothing to the debate. Tell us how we can stop unhappy people from medicating themselves. No one in human history has EVER figure that one out. I think the idea that you can heal the failings of human nature using the power of the state is profoundly un-conservative.
Please, I would love to have anyone tell me why they have hope in the WOD. Tell me why you think it will EVER do anything but give the state more and more power over us. Tell me why, in the course of human history, you think we can stop drug abuse when all others have failed. Tell me why I should put my faith in the WOD. I'd love to hear a sound, well reasoned argument for it.
What are the eternal, fundamental principles of right and wrong that tell us a person who smokes pot should be considered a criminal? Alcohol was legal, then illegal, now it's legal again. Did the fundamental principles of right and wrong change?
I understand why a murderer is a criminal. I understand why a thief is a criminal. I understand why a rapist is a criminal. I don't understand why a doper is a criminal. They certainly are making choices I wouldn't make, but why should they be made criminals?
It's not as hopeless as you want us to believe. Eventually recombinant DNA technology is going to solve the problem.