I have now read through this thread . My first thought is that there is a hell of a lot of crap in here ! The second thought is that a lot of people are concerned about the prison population .
As far as the Drug issue is concerned , Alcohol causes a lot of the problems in the world and is totally legal (with Age as the only control) and tobacco is one of the most addictive drugs we know , and is also totally leagal (again ,in UK with an Age Control).
IF marijuana was legalised and quality controlled , it would earn money for the Government in Tax , would reduce the dangers to users in
the quality would be constant and would remove pot users from the criminals who give free fixes to get poor sods hooked on hard drugs .
The hard drug issue is a bit more complicated especially as so many people still USE hard drugs despite all the warnings in the media about the dangers !