Yes, I've noticed.
The country is also filled with cigarette-smoking, junk-food eating, religious, non-religious, car-driving, drunken, teetotaling, bicycle-riding, honest, thieving, employed, unemployed, healthy, sick, married, single, etc. people leading xxxx wasting, unproductive lives.
Inotherwords, all kinds of people lead wasting, unproductive lives. It has little to do with whether or not they smoke marijuana. And if it did, at what point does the government step in and tell me how to live my life? And since when is the government an expert on such things - especially to people who call themselves conservatives?
Bureaucrats are the world's experts when it comes to wasting lives and resources.
Harry J. Anslinger, testimony to Congress, 1937
That what Harry Anslinger was worried about when marijuana was banned in '37 (and jobs for he and other soon to be unemployed T-men). Not health, not addiction, not productive lives. And that's what still bothers you and others who think like you.