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Yes, that is true that there are more dangerous plants, but I don't consider weed to be a drug. I know of two people personally who OD'd on prescribed narcotics and died. I know no-one who OD'd on pot (by the way, I am not generally a smoker- I hate the smell even.) I prefer drinking, but I know alcohol is way more dangerous. I would never legalize something like meth- that IS a drug, and it's destructive and causes a lot of crime.

I'm with you on legalizing marijuana and not drugs like meth. It's just not because I don't think it's a drug or I think that natural drugs are so much better than synthetic drugs. I think we should legalize it because it's not super addictive and it's not prone to causing a lot of problems for innocent people, and because it is already so prevalent that it can be found easily anywhere and it's already cheaper than beer for the most part on a per use basis. We are accomplishing nothing good trying to keep up the ban. We aren't making it hard to find at all. It couldn't be much more available. We aren't making it too expensive to try or to expensive for people to use it regularly. We are deterring precious few people with the far remote possibility of getting caught and getting a slap on the wrist. What we are doing is blowing many billions of dollars a year trying to keep up the ban, and wasting a lot of resources we could be putting to better use. The ban is enriching organized crime to the tune of many billions of dollars a year. We're turning a lot of people against law enforcement and the rule of law in general. We've created a situation where there is a lot of monetary temptation for people to become law breakers who may not have become law breakers without it. We're saddling a lot of people with criminal records that in some cases diminish earning capacity and reduce their ability to contribute to society, and probably just push some to more criminal activity. We're causing so much harm and we really aren't getting much in return except that maybe we're stopping a few people from smoking pot who would do it if it was legal, but I honestly do not believe there are that many just waiting for pot to be legal so they can finally smoke it.

To me the war on marijuana is asinine and harmful to this country. I do think that we as a people will be a better off when we legalize marijuana. We will probably have a few more people smoking pot but that is a small price to pay for putting a stop to all the problems the ban is causing.