‘Reefer Madness’ must be one of your favorite movies, you have all but listed most of that 1940’s production script? I do not think I have seen such a thin argument since my high school debating club where we had to propose the opposition’s argument whether we liked it or not.

Prohibition as a means of controlling people’s behavior has not really had much of a success story has it? In your own country Alcohol was banned and production severely limited, I suggest you study this era in your country’s history because it will reveal something very instructive to you — prohibition never works, has never worked and can never work. It simply drives the behavior underground.

Decades and billions of dollars later, with tragic stories of harmless non-violent people being incarcerated with life sentences-and the statistics have risen, not declined in personal use, illicit trafficking is at an all time record-and also federal involvement in Heroin importation via the armed forces (look up the recent history of CIA/FBI covert drug programs with soldiers protecting poppy crops in Afghanistan).

Look, I get that you are anti-Cannabis, perhaps you don’t know that much about it — the plant itself has many medicinal properties and is the only substance that can mitigate some epilepsy conditions, it has helped countless people overcome cancers. Like all drugs if you abuse it (and yes you can die from drinking too much water) it will bite you — but compared to Alcohol it is pretty benign-it does not make takers lose control of themselves and become violent like Alcohol does, take a look on any downtown street on the weekend late at night, see the drunks fighting in every town.

No, I don’t think your argument holds validity-you are deliberately looking at some negative points and exaggerating them for effect. I do not have the time to go through each point, but you need to educate yourself about Cannabis and human drug behavior in general-it really has not worked this prohibition ideal of yours has it?