One of you brought up the arguement that alcohol is legal, and therefore marijuana should be too. Did you know that there was a time (way, way, way back in the day) when alcohol was banned? To put it simply: it didn't work. I don't really know the details, but it was put up so people would seem more upstanding, chivalrous and sophisticated - instead it made them riot... (But we're talking like 18th/19th century I believe... don't know the exact dates...)

My mother actually told me once that she would rather me drive high than drive drunk - 'cuz if you're driving drunk you wanna go 75 MPH on a 30, while if you're high, you just wanna chill and coast on home (or trudge on home...)