People in the third world will always find some way to die horribly. If you legalize pot what will end up happening is it takes the illegal producers out of the picture us companies will grow it, regular people will grow it, foreign companies will grow it. The illegal producers and distributers will will switch to something else illegal and in high demand. Its their nature and people like that will always be lopping of heads or torturing someone. You also miss the fact that pot would be a multibillion dollar industry with thousands of jobs created. It won’t pull us out of the recession but it will help. Not to mention the millions we save on incarnation costs.
Legalize it, get the government somewhat out of the way and fewer people will perish.
I don't think medical science is quite there yet.