"potheads killing us on the roads when they are high" Seriously? OMG it's reefer madness! 
"These articles act like as if it was my responsibility to worry about, or pay for other people's mistakes."
  Yes, it is.
 Seeing as how you seem to be concerned about money so much, allow me to point out that 
 the addictive drug culture costs us a fortune-way more than the suggestions to fight it the Globe has made in this article.
   To that add that would be  nice to walk down the street without the fear of being robbed, etc. 
    At the risk of sounding like an old hippie, it takes a village. 
   The things you wrote sound like bad citizenship.