You need to get your history from reputable historians, not from DEA flacks.
Smoked marijuana was recommended as an anodyne for pain and anxiety by Hippocraties and Galen, and until 1937, was part of the standard pharmocopia, well regarded for it's benign track record, since well before 1776, as even a casual perusal of first hand sources reveals.
The fact that marijuana advocates, 60's radicals, and libertarians would try to smear the name of One of the nation's Founding Fathers for their own despicable means, only goes to show how wicked their agenda really is.
The fact that manic drug warriors are willing to rewrite history, and ignore unbiased scientific iquiry, attests to the despicable unconstitution communist agenda of jailing victimless criminals "for the greater good of society".
Way back in 1815, The Pennsylvania Supreme Court decided an important case, here are excerpts from that case: It reflects the case law of the day, and the attitude on which our nation was founded.)
This court is...invested with power to punish not only open violations of decency and morality, but also whatever secretly tends to undermine the principles of society... Whatever tends to the destruction of morality, in general, may be punishable criminally. Crimes are public offenses, not because they are perpetrated publically, but because their effect is to injure the public. Buglary, though done in secret, is a public offense; and secretly destroying fences is indictable.
Hence it follows, that an offense may be punishable, if in it's nature and by it's example, it tends to the corruption or morals; although it not be committed in public.
Although every immoral act, such as lying, ect... is not indictable, yet where the offense charged is destructive of morality in general...it is punishable at common law. The destruction of morality renders the power of government invalid...
No man is permitted to corrupt the morals of the people, secret poision cannot be thus desseminated.
You libertarians have the same ideology as pedophiles, "If it feels good do it." In fact libertarians on this very forum have advocated lowering the age of consent, legalizing bigamy, sex with kids, dogs, goats, dead-people ect...
Just as with sexual perversions, I do not advocate jail for drug dealers and users.
I think the best way to prevent drug use and peddling would be to punish it the same way sexual perversions in early America were punished: That every person being thereof convicted by verdict, confession, or outlawry [unlawful flight to avoid prosecution], shall be hanged by the neck until he or she shall be dead.