Marijuana is not an infectious disease. It is not spread through casual contact. It is not spread through any contact. This comparison is beyond ridiculous.
Prohibition brought us organized crime and widespread disrespect for law and order. It really never works the way prohibitionists think it will. The answer to drug problems (and alcoholism, gluttony, gambling problems, etc.) is education, not hysterics.
I am done debating you because I’ve got better things to do than waste any more time.
Your inability to grasp the point does not make it false. So tell me, how does Marijuana usage spread?
Prohibition brought us organized crime and widespread disrespect for law and order.
We had organized crime before, and much of their success in bootlegging alcohol was based on the fact that a significant portion of the populace never supported that law in the first place. It is the disagreement with the law that brought about disrespect for it.
Laws should reflect the will of the majority, not those of some temporary minority that manages to grasp power for a short time. As Edmund Burke said:
The use of force alone is but temporary. It may subdue for a moment; but it does not remove the necessity of subduing again: and a nation is not governed, which is perpetually to be conquered.
As for prohibitions in general, it would appear to me that the fallacy of their effort was the speed and means by which they pushed it. It was all at once, and draconian.
Efforts to slowly strangle off tobacco usage (and thereby produce a defacto "prohibition") are showing more promise. Had the prohibitionists utilized similar tactics, they may have achieved their objective without all the negative results.