Marijuana should be legal.  It is a crazy messed up situation that a plant with this many beneficial qualities should after 10,000 years of helping man find it's biggest enemy in the one nation that claims to be all about the home of the brave and land of the free.  Land of the free not to disagree.  This issue has more implications than simply those who use it for medical use, recreational use or to solve the energy crisis, economic crisis what have you.  The issue really boils down to my personal freedom.  If I smoke bud I am less likely to be a violent person as opposed to drinking alcohol which has been legal because of the "fucked up" situation with prohibition.  Listen not to me but the experts on this subject.  We as a country spend trillions on this useless war on drugs which has not brought a decrease in usage but rather an increase in violence and drug use.  The war on drugs does not help our government control their use and abuse it helps to give power to drug dealers and the cartels which are the illegal pharmacuetical companies and just as corrupt. (hmmm.)

I personally don't believe in homosexual activities as they are not for me, but in the name of personal freedom, if done between consenting adults then by all means go and enjoy your liberty.  The same goes for bud.  Who the f..k cares what I do in peace and quiet when I do not infringe upon others freedoms?

I could go on and should, simply to try and keep sane, but I will stop for now and leave you with this,

Some of the very proponents of legalizing marijuana are those who were paid by our government to villify it and persecute those who use it in any one of its many uses  (i.e. former policemen, former DEA agents and big dady DEA leading agent of the 90's)  If this government who by the minute use this as an excuse to build an incredibly large police force daily and daily continues to infringe and blatantly subvert our freedoms as freethinking americans in whatever manner they see fit continues, the world that we will see will not be a far cry from that described in 1984 (George Orwell) or any of the other major dystopian novels of the 20th century. 

In the name of personal freedoms legalize it, tax it to generate revenue ( similar to the 21st amendment) and regulate it.  Historically no government could regulate that which was illegal.

Peace