KiNgBrAdLeY7: Marijuana, legal? For a joke, that was a good one. If it wasn't a joke, though, then, this is no joke and certainly not funny. Narcotic substances should be banned. Or burned. Or both. The hell is wrong with people and common sense? Anything even POTENTIALLY harmful should be SELF-banned. If someone can't think or act on their own, then someone ELSE has to ban the damn thing.
Well you know that oxygen is bad for you and yet you need to breath it about 12-20 times in one minute to even stay alive, but apparently it is killing you slowly (oxidation, mutation and than cancer), so we should self-ban air/oxygen because it's bad and stop living altogether! ;-)
WildHobgoblin: Considering alcohol and tobacco are legal, I think good old Mary Jane should be available legally as well (of course, there should be some restrictions).
When I was in school, people used to smoke a lot of weed, which just goes to show - if you really want it, you'll find a way. Also, the ones I met in later life have not turned out to become terrible, drug-abusing monsters or anything of the sort.
Where I live now, there's a scare every now and then of weed being sold that is cut with all sorts of crap, e.g. lead, which can cause major health issues, a problem which could be avoided by just legalising marijuana.
My thoughts exactly!
Check out this nice animation against marijuana prohibition:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Ll36P6C_28