I'm not interested in relaxing the drug laws generally--just marijuana. And my only interest is that it's a waste of resources given the negligibly worse health impact of marijuana vs. alcohol and tobacco. Hard drugs are a different matter, though.
Actually, I would not have a problem making it legal for proven addicts to get small amounts of harder drugs, provided that they submit to treatment, and monitoring. They could buy from the government, at low prices, and the government could acquire their supplies from seizures, using the proceeds to offset the cost of the program. That would be better than banning the narcotics altogether because it would burn the pusher's rope at both ends. They keep up the pressure with arrests and seizures, and they take away the market for the product by undercutting the street price and forcing addicts into programs.
>>I'm not interested in relaxing the drug laws generally--just marijuana.<<
I'm not sure it is a good idea. Last winter, here in Reno we had a motorcycle cop killed when a young girl whose reflexes were slowed by using marijuana was unable to hit the brakes fast enough.
Probably for cancer patients would be okay. The rest of us don't need to get high just for the fun of it.