muawiyah - you're a blind idealogue.
I'll concede to you that narcotics are bad - extremely addictive life sucking force. What you missed entirely is that your basis for keeping cannabis illegal is your position on narcotics. That's comparing apples and oranges, so don't try it.
streetpreacher - I'd rather be in a car with a high driver than a drunk driver, and I never get in cars with drunk drivers. Am I risking my life? As much as any person is by getting into a vehicle. The great thing about driving when you're high is that you can do it or you can't. If you're so high that you'd be swerving in and out of lanes, not being able to react to any other driver on the road, you'll still be on your couch trying to figure out how to work the tv remote. Now if you're high and you can get in your car and turn it on, you're probably not all that high. You may just giggle a bit, but all in all, you'll drive rather well - maybe even more alertly than normal because of the laten paranoia involved in smoking pot.
So far I have yet to meet an adult potsmoker who has not also claimed to have "tried" other things.
Frequently the "other things" led to pot ~ this is the old "gateway" versus "getaway" dichotomy!
Do you guys really think anybody believes a druggy about anything? That's one of the reasons we pay all that money to do drug tests when there's valuable stock or a cash register on the line.