Legalize it.

You're not stopping anyone who really wants pot from getting it anyway and making it "taboo" only makes it more popular with kids.

And that money is going to go somewhere no matter what, why shouldn't it be a revenue generator rather than going to some Mexican cartel. 

And making it illegal only floods our prison system with unnecessary people that cost TAX MONEY (hey now maybe conservatives might get their panties in a wad over it) to keep them in jail for petty crimes. Prisoners don't magically pay for themselves while they're in prison, you might want to realize that. 

Well, I guess America has laws about driving under the influence, so that part is covered either way. I think it is a bad idea, but I do not have strong feelings about it, specially because I am also a ex-junkie and my father was. You do not get high by tobacco, but I agree with you: alchool can make a person totally wasted and dangerous, but, you know, it is impossible to forbid alchool, remember the Al Capone fiasco back in the 20s.

But the mere fact that George Soros is behind it tells me it is a terrible idea.

However, I do not have strong feelings about this as a legislation issue: if something harms a person and his family, soon enough they will drop it or the family will be destroyed. Users will skyrocket, I am sure, but I do not see it as a very important issue.

America should keep some states dope free and the rest not. If you are a junkie, you can live in those. That is a solution...

I don't disagree with them being bad. No, let's make them illegal too

If it was, it'd be indiscriminate slavery. However, people in prison already do free labor. I suggest it just be expanded on

That would be ridiculous, first of all the majority of pot users are not "junkies". A huge chunk of college students use pot, they're all "junkies"?

Having a country where something like marijuana is legal in half the states but can get you thrown in prison in the other half is stupid. 

But hey in that sense, then the people in those "illegal" states should then also have to pay higher taxes to cover the higher prison population for petty marijuana violations. So they can put their money where their mouth is. 

For profit prisons are actually the main lobby group against legalizing, because they know if pot were legal everywhere the prison population would drop (which is paid for by tax payers) and that's bad for them. Gotta keep those prisons full. 

Well, just because it already happens doesn't mean it's right. I say that it's very unfair for people to work with no compensation. Prisoners are still human, and a lot of them are there for non-violent crimes.

Should we also ban sugar? Where do you draw the line?

"See, I don't get this argument."

I don't see how you don't.  It's simple equality.  Alcohol, which is worst than weed in almost all aspects, is legal.  Marijuana, which is less harmful than alcohol, is illegal.  The arguement is simply: why is a substance less harmful illegal, while the more harmful substance is legal.  Its just a wrong that needs to be right.