I haven't touched marijuana (the only illegal drug I ever took) since 1977. I think it is stupid, other than for real medical reasons.
I also think it should be legalized in the same way alcohol is.
Alcohol is illegal under many circumstances. Now pot has limited legal use and is illegal under many circumstances, so you have your wish.
Though the pro-recreational drug users with deny this with their last breath, there is a big difference between alcohol and pot.
Pot is breathed in and gets to the body with it's intoxicating ingredients almost instantly. With alcohol you can sip a little or drink a little with food and you won't have the same dangerous high effect.
Most don't consider pot that big a deal with minor use, if you get caught smoking with a small amount you get a ticket (big deal). If you are in the lifestyle so heavily that you smoke a lot or deal the drugs, that is where the line IMO gets crossed to the side of being a serious problem.
Lastly, the other reason it isn't legal is that you would grow the use and addiction of Pot like legalizing alcohol has. Only difference is where you may not get intoxicated with alcohol, you get high the first puff with pot.
So there is an apples and oranges thing going on between pot and alcohol. They are not the same thing at all. But if you are starting the movement to ban alcohol more so than it is now with abuse, then go for it!