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It isn't clear that the behavior at issue is something for which your landlord bears any responsibility, or would in any way relieve you from your obligations under your lease. Further, even if we assume your landlord could do something, if you can't be bothered to even ask him to try it pretty much destroys any claim you might have to get out of the lease. Your landlord isn't a psychic.
The part about asking him seems fair. I am drafting a letter regarding this and other issues.

How would flagrant and repeated drug use in common areas of the apartment building not be a habitability issue? It's not people doing drugs in their apartment and it's not "people." It's tenants and their guests in a common, semi-public area.

There are other habitability issues under Civil Code §1941.1, but I am particularly interested in how to tackle this one.