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LOL, if it were put to a national vote. Marijuna would be legalized the folowing day.
Here I'll step up to the plate though.
By your post you seem to think pot is our countries worst drug problem.
What about all the other drugs? What shall become of them?
Not to mention you do realize the worst abused drug in America is not pot or any illegal drug.
It is your friend, alcohol.

Let me dig up a few stats fer ya.

Hispanic students are more likely than white and black students to engage in these health risk behaviors

Health Behaviors
(%) Hispanic Students
(%) White Students
(%) Black Students
Lifetime cocaine use (Used any form of cocaine, including, powder, crack, or freebase one or more times during their life.)
10.9 7.4 1.8
Current cocaine use (Used any form of cocaine one or more times during the 30 days before the survey.) 5.3 3.0 1.1
Lifetime ecstasy use (Used ecstasy [also called MDMA] one or more times during their life.) 7.4 5.6 3.7
Lifetime illegal injection-drug use (Used a needle to inject any drug into their body one or more times during their life.) 3.1 1.5 1.8
Lifetime illegal heroin use (Used heroin [also called smack, junk, or China white] one or more times during their life.) 3.7 1.7 1.8
Offered, sold, or given an illegal drug by someone on school property (During the 12 months before the survey.) 29.1 20.8 19.2
Drank alcohol on school property (At least one drink of alcohol on at least 1 day during the 30 days before the survey.) 7.5 3.2 3.4



Hispanic students are more likely than white students to engage in these health risk behaviors
Health Behaviors
(%) Hispanic Students
(%) White Students
(%) Black Students
Drank alcohol for the first time before age 13 years (Other than a few sips.) 29.0 21.5 26.7
Tried marijuana for the first time before age 13 years 9.8 7.2 9.5

So according to the CDC, the hard drug use among blacks is much lower than hispanic or white. Yet all three seem pretty happy to smoke a little weed & sell

In summary, over the 20 year period 1979-1998, slightly more than one-tenth of one percent of all deaths in the US were due to the use of illegal drugs. During that time, a total of 214,575 deaths were called drug-induced -- but only 21 percent of these were due to the use of "illegal" drugs.
Of the 44,727 deaths attributed to illegal drug use, 22,735 were caused by accidental heroin overdose [ICD-9 code 850.0], while another 15,551 died from accidental cocaine overdose [ICD-9 code 855.2]. That is a total of 38,286 (or 86 percent) of all deaths due to illegal drugs. One has to wonder how greatly this number of accidental deaths could be reduced if the people using the drugs had products of known quality and dosage to work with.

The United States government is currently spending over $20 billion per year to "fight the scourge of illegal drugs," and arresting over 700,000 per year for smoking marijuana. Why? Clearly, it has nothing to do with death.

To help put the lack of magnitude concerning drug deaths in perspective, consider that during the same 20 year timeframe:
30,150 people died from choking on food
37,246 people died from choking on things other than food
38,328 people committed suicide via inhaling car exhaust
80,959 people committed suicide via hanging themselves, and
87,152 people died from drowning (6,681 of whom drowned in bathtubs)
378,960 died from alcohol induced causes

OK I'm done.

"It is your friend, alcohol".- JewwellsP
I think not.
Jew, I mean JewwellsP at least the stats class paid off.
DogJ, I am suggesting pick up service because the "door" delivery thing can be such a bang sometimes.

Now that has me wondering, which would be worse?
To be called a jew or an arab?

The stats easily show what your wanting to say is the "cause" of the problem, really is not the problem.

Just think of all the money & life that would be saved by making alcohol illegal.

Ah heck lets face it, were all going to be "suffering" much worse in the years ahead.
Drugs, alcohol, obesity will be the least of our problems.
Did you see this, from the Wall Street Journal.
Foundation of New World Order Is Uncertainty
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123084068194547123.html

Shoo Mister, your one of the few on these blogs I agree with 99.8% of the time.
Really I enjoy reading other's views on all sorts of subjects.

No winner's or loser's here, just people presenting their side. Cause really this is just the internet.