Re: Marijuana: 0
Look, if you're gonna argue that it should be illegal because it's a vice, then just make liquor and tobacco illegal as well.
The Russian Mafia will love you to death.
The vice argument is a complete non-issue because the precedent set by alcohol states that the government and society are willing to tolerate vices as long as the person does not interfere with the lives of others (drunk fighting, driving, etc.) Besides which, if a person becomes a horrific waste of life because they are a daily smoker, it's their fault, not the drug's fault; it was some flaw in their personality that caused them to become such. As a counterexample, I used to smoke 2-3 times a day over the past semester, and my GPA was 3.0 (out of 4.0) and I am currently attending summer classes, which are basically the hardest thing you can do in college. As for the people I know who smoke, I have only known one true "pothead" in my life, and the dude was a waste of life, grass or no grass. You can just tell when you meet them.
@Spartan: it's less of a menace to society than alcohol. Far less. In fact, I would venture to say that it isn't a menace at all; that the only menace to society is people.
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