Sure there is. You choose to play with either, and you're gonna get burned.
"No one wants a fire in their home."
I'm sure a user high on Meth would love to see a nice big fire.
"Drug users do so out of choice. It’s called “freedom”, and it means people should have the right to whatever they like as long as it doesn’t directly affect anyone else - whether other folks like it or not."
It's a great argument, but with a gigantic flaw. Unless you're living on a desert island all by yourself with no friends or family to give a hang about you, that won't work. It ALWAYS ends up harming, hurting, or killing the people around you. Just ask my former classmate and his wife. Oh, wait, you can't. They're dead. Great recipe for irresponsibility and total anarchy.
No one ever overdosed on marijuana and died from it. Stentorian bolded shouting is no substitute for the facts. I’ve noticed that many people tend to raise their voices when they begin to realize they are wrong. In your case, I think it’s more like puffing up to make the other geckos think you and your argument is bigger than theirs. Doesn’t work.
Your flawed reasoning leaves such a hole that one could drive the planet Jupiter through it. Basically, you argue that the WOD saves lives, then you use your deceased friends as the example as to why the WOD is necessary. Of course, it should be obvious to you that the WOD doesn't save lives, as the WOD was in effect when your friends used drugs and the WOD neither stopped them or saved them. Sadly, you are not alone, as this is what passes for "logic" by drug warriors such as yourself.
As to your comment that drug use is always harmful some way, some how, this just isn't true either. While it can't be denied that some percentage of users do suffer adverse consequences of various sorts, the truth is that for most users, their usage is pretty much benign in their lives. In general, the the most likely adverse effect the average drug user faces is getting pinched by the law, the tragic demise of your friends notwithstanding.