Quote Originally Posted by plextor guy
Personally I think it's a waste of time and a long term health hazard but when compared to alcohol, much less damaging to society. I can't remember the last time someone high on weed picked a fight, beat his or her spouse, was loud or particularly inappropriate. Further, prisons and jails in the US should be emptied of all nonviolent weed offenders. Tax it, regulate it like alcohol, end of story.
I like your last sentence best of all. The stuff is pretty harmless and the only problem I've ever seen people have with it is that they could get a criminal record. With marijuana illegal, there is an illegal industry to meet the demand. Since the industry is illegal, it is unregulated, so that there are no standards for size of dose, purity, freedom from contaminants. And, it doesn't pay taxes. The US government is completely crazy about marijuana.