I tend to agree with Southplains. If it was decriminalized, we could work on helping addicts as opposed to judging them from our ivory towers. Don't send them to jail, send them to rehab.
It definitely isn't a non sequitur, or at least with the point RJGOP is trying to make. I'd be willing to bet that cigarettes and obesity have killed more people in the last 5 years than heroin has in 50. 5 big mac's a day and a pack of reds aren't illegal, but following your logic of how detrimental they are, they should be illegal. It costs tax payers exponentially more to deal with obesity related health issues than it does with drug addicts. Decriminalize most drugs and we won't have to spend tax payer money on jails either. Smoking and drinking kill more people every year than every single illicit drug combined. But we are in America, you can't take away my 52oz super big gulp.
You name one actor who OD's on heroin, and I can name 500 more regular Joe Americans who have died from obesity related complications.