Again, you are talking about the rare criminal use of it instead of the typical use.
Alcohol is a food purifier going back to the Bible, can thin the blood helping many ailments if not used to criminal amounts.
Pot goes right to the brain, has lots of associations with the criminal side of the culture and is not something a responsible conservative advocates or pushes on others as good.
You'd be surprised how many decent, hard-working folks enjoy the odd number -- including a few Freepers, I suspect.
If you think government should be subsidizing a criminal industry by limiting supply, you belong over at DU, where there are lots of folks who mistake their personal preference for The Way Things Need To Be.
Grow up -- and if you can't manage that, how about paying my share of the drug-war bill, since you're such an ardent supporter?