I actually agree with the first sentence (well, before you revised the post -- it was concerning community-level regulation). However, practically implementing

I actually agree with the first sentence (well, before you revised the post -- it was concerning community-level regulation). However, practically implementing this would require extremely decentralized decision making (like individual neighborhoods exempting themselves from or choosing to enforce drug laws). As it stands, such a level of granularity is not available and its implementation would mean radical restructuring of how police forces work at a minimum. Otherwise, "community" becomes too broad to be of use.