Of course people who use alcohol and tobacco are not evil. But you seem to have missed point. It is still possible to buy both.  It is still affordable to buy both. Pot users are not evil either but our state and local governments, dominated by Republicans who go to great length about how Oil and Businesses are so over regulated that they can't survive.  Yet when it comes to Pot it's regulation after regulation after every rule they can think of to stop it from happening.