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"Except to those who wind up in jail for using illegal drugs rather than legal drugs."

Jail is one thing, and some people do go to jail or even prison for simple possession of marijuana. But what's probably worse is that so many are arrested and lose jobs because they can't bond out or because they have to take off work for court and their employers find out they were arrested for drugs. That most of them are left with lifelong criminal records is probably the worst part about all of this. These criminal records can really limit what a person can do in life. Statistics show that more than half of all adults born from the mid fifties on have at least tried marijuana. It's crazy that a few million out of close to a hundred million get stuck with criminal records that make it harder for them to get ahead in life because they did something when they were younger that probably hurt no one, especially when you consider that most of their contemporaries did the same thing but didn't get caught.