carmen510
Deity
I just have one thing to point out, which everyone on the pro-marijuana side seems to spout out (including me, previously).
Yes, cigarettes and alcohol are more harmful than marijuana. But that doesn't matter at all in a legalization debate. You can throw out statistics for drunk driving, cancer caused by tobacco, and the like, but that only works if your argument is banning tobacco/alcohol. Statistics on people dying from drunk driving doesn't have any bearing on why marijuana should be made legal, just on which is more harmful. And hell, "X kills less than cigarettes/alcohol" applies to nearly EVERYTHING. I could pass a law requiring all children to carry assault rifles to school or mandate that all prisoners be confined in Detroit with no police supervision within the city and that would still kill less people than drunk driving.
Yes, cigarettes and alcohol are more harmful than marijuana. But that doesn't matter at all in a legalization debate. You can throw out statistics for drunk driving, cancer caused by tobacco, and the like, but that only works if your argument is banning tobacco/alcohol. Statistics on people dying from drunk driving doesn't have any bearing on why marijuana should be made legal, just on which is more harmful. And hell, "X kills less than cigarettes/alcohol" applies to nearly EVERYTHING. I could pass a law requiring all children to carry assault rifles to school or mandate that all prisoners be confined in Detroit with no police supervision within the city and that would still kill less people than drunk driving.