The real point is that no one on these threads knows exactly what is happening because of what they say here because, as already pointed out, neither group of these debaters can change the other's mind.
The real win or loss is in the minds of those who do not post, but lurk, and have not totally dug their heels in, and read these threads, and as a result sway one way or the other based on some of the things they read here. And we don't know what they are thinking.
When some of these obsessive types make the same crazy points over and over and call people loserdopians and such, they lose credibility. And when others on the other side do the same, they lose as well.
The real point has nothing whatsoever to do with pot, or even drugs. It has to do with whether we should be a free country or not. Whether people are free to make their own decisions and their own mistakes, or whether we have mob rule or rule by elitists.
"The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing."