Sorry about your trouble, GUEST, I really am, but you are obviously so wrapped up in your anger and pain that you cannot eve see the level of misanthropy and denial that your emotional state has driven you to...

you called my citing of facts "red herring BS" and said *I* have a closed mind?

well I have to say, I do not have much respect for people who think their own personal suffering puts them in a position to judge the behavior or judgment of millions of thinking, capable adults.
Not everyone who smokes pot becames a heroin addict. That this happened to your loved ones is indeed unfortunate, for you and for them, but it does not make your hysterical diatribe justified, and certainly does not make you right about anything.

I have a number of relatives who are alcohoics; but it does not make me want to demonize alcohol. Why? because not everyone who drinks it becomes an addict.

My mother has MS and glaucoma, and has had medicinal marijuana presecribed for her condition. I have a number of friends who have been presecribed pot for nausea accompanying the use of anti-HIV drugs. This substance helps more than it harms, and hundreds of years of history have borne this out.