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You can post all the studies in the world but they aren't going to disprove the one thing that is basically the elepahnt in the living room, that marijuana is an integral part of the drug culture.

You can show this study or that study, but all one has to do to do is look, and find that the majority of those who glorify marijuana, also glorify other drugs.

Yeah, yeah, you will give the head in the ground simplistic comeback that druggies also drank milk as kids.

All one has to do is look around and to deny that marijuana is not part of the drug culture is to deny reality.

Slight of hand on your part. You know why it is part of the rest of the drug culture? Your DEA and Drug laws put it with them.

And the plain truth of it, it matters not anyway. It's still not very harmful. That is the only thing that matters. Anything is a 'feel based' arguement which of course is the standard liberal MO

Rock 'n Roll is/was part of the drug culture also, should we make it illegal?

I understand your concern here. Frankly, this is one of the reasons I don't necessarily think that (all/some) drugs should be legalized. Some people will get the wrong message and view legalization as an endorsement of a drug lifestyle. That being said, I support drug legalization efforts because I think current enforcement policies are excessive and trample the Constitution in both letter and spirit. The control of individuals required to enforce zero-tolerance drug policies is antithetical to life in a free society.

Drugs should be decriminalized and a "don't ask, don't tell" ethos should be the centerpiece of social interaction. If you hold down a steady job and don't show up to work intoxicated, the government and employers should mind their own business. If someone's drug use (e.g., the weekend toker) is not obvious at the workplace or in other areas of public life, then he or she should be left alone. If on the other hand, someone is whacked out on goof balls or whatever and is making a scene, driving erratically, possibly endangering his or her self and others, then that someone should be hauled off to jail, charges forthcoming.

We can find alternatives to unconstitutional police tactics and tone down the violence and loss of innocent life associated with drug enforcement.

We don't need no-knock raids that recklessly endanger innocents. We don't need dragnet searches like road blocks with dogs sniffing our vehicles. We don't need helicopters flying at dangersously low altitudes looking for mj plants. We don't need drug court and we don't need to morph drug treatment programs into socialist institutions. We don't need the police corruption associated with drug prohibition. We don't need to confiscate property without due process. We don't need any more zero-tolerance drug policies and we don't need any more bold-faced lies from self-righteous bureaucrats. All of these things we don't need, but have; they need to be changed.