I'm sorry for your loss. That must have been a horrible thing to go through for you and your family.
Alcohol (which is a legal substance) statistically kills more people than any illegal substance including illegal prescription medication abuse.
You can overdose and die from crack. Crack is physically addictive. You can't overdose on pot, and it is not physically addictive.
The "effective" ingredient in "shrooms" is Psilocybin which is a poisonous compound. Pot is not poisonous.
I don't like pot. I don't like the effect, I don't like the smell, I don't like anything about it
for me. I think pot can be most closely associated to alcohol in which case recreational use is not harmful, and may even have some benefit. There is medical pot, where there is no medical alcohol (although red wine has health benefits), nor is there medical crack, nor medical shrooms, nor medical heroin. I don't see why the government doesn't take advantage of the possible tax benefits. Alcohol and cigarettes are both taxed heavily and both kill many people, and in general most people do not want to illegalize either of those...doesn't make sense to me.
I actually do think cigarettes should be illegalized and pulled off the market as (in a very objective view) it seems the costs of medical care associated with cigarette addiction far outweigh the tax dollars coming in. Plus, I'm sick of breathing in cigarette smoke on the streets (barf), not that pot smoke would be much less annoying.
