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Do you believe America to be a democracy where a majority of the populace make law instead of a Republic where elected representatives make law? Do you believe that the rights of a minority should still be protected despite the majority's stance?

As to your first question, we are a democratic republic with representatives. The current representatives are, in the main, dead set against MJ legalization, so it will remain illegal, for now. I didn't locate the "right" to dope in the Constitution, that must have been the "lost" Bill of Rights Amendment the Founders forgot to put in 'cause they were all stoned on that hemp Thomas Jefferson was growing.

As to your first question, we are a democratic republic with representatives.
Close, we're a Constitutional Republic. We're supposed to be tied down to the Constitution, not the whims of "a majority". In your "democratic republic" your "majority" aspect carries weight. In our Constitutional Republic it doesn't.
The current representatives are, in the main, dead set against MJ legalization, so it will remain illegal, for now.
Ah, yes..."for now". And the tide is slowly turning. Those same currently elected representatives are supposed to be looking out for everyone's rights, not just those of "the majority".
I didn't locate the "right" to dope in the Constitution...
Just like you can't find the prohibition of "dope" in the Constitution itself either, right?
...that must have been the "lost" Bill of Rights Amendment the Founders forgot to put in 'cause they were all stoned on that hemp Thomas Jefferson was growing.
Okay, I'll play. Nothing has been "lost", it's just been ignored. The Ninth ("The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.") should've covered such things yet it's ignored. It would've been impossible to write down every right the people were to retain.
As to TJ growing weed, yes, he grew it. As to the FF being stoned on it...they sure were some smart guys for a bunch of stoners.

BTW, I liked this little Wikipedia snippet...
Democratic Republic
The reasons why countries call themselves Democratic Republics are also very different from case to case, but the common denominator seems to be that all these countries were created as a result of a revolution or war of independence against a domestic or foreign regime that was widely seen as tyrannical, oppressive and undemocratic. Thus the new country gave itself the title of "Democratic Republic" in order to reflect the idea that a dictatorial regime had been overthrown and a new, democratic one was put in its place.
And yet even the FF didn't call us a Democratic Republic despite the tyranny and oppression of King George.
An aside...here is the Constitutional republic page. The key is this...constitutional law that limits the government's power over citizens.
Nothing like that in your democratic republic is there.

I didn't locate the "right" to dope in the Constitution, that must have been the "lost" Bill of Rights Amendment the Founders forgot to put in 'cause they were all stoned on that hemp Thomas Jefferson was growing.

You could just not understand the document.