ahh.. nice stereotype... this explains your stance on the whole thing really. you know that most stoners are not anything like cheech and chong, as the media would have you believe? they are doctors, lawyers, politicians, teachers even police officers. many of them use pot for chronic pain, extreme nausea, and alleviating mental illness. sure, a few people like to smoke all day every day while wearing t shirts with weed leaves on them and never brushing their hair or showering. but they make up just a small percentile of users.
how about being able to restrict cannabis sale to over 18s, having it available for sale from dispensaries with strict rules and fines for those that break them, so that the average joe don't have to meet dealers who will inevitably offer them something harder like P. what about the millions of dollars the taxpayer would save by not having to process people through court systems merely for making a personal choice that is *fact* no where near as damaging as alcohol? how about the revenue that would be bought into this country from a flourishing hemp industry.. how about the fact that the only reason it waws made illegal in the first place, is because some money making industries knew it would put them out of business, and paid the government to take action... i could go on and on, but my point is, i fail to see how good, reasonable arguments like this fall on ears that for some reason even don't have to justify why they overlook the logical reasoning behind legalisation, and simply say stuff like "drugs are bad mmmmmkay" or "stoners are dumb"... therefore helping to keep the weed illegal.
do some research man, open your mind because the world is changing and we have to keep up, not stick to reasoning that is decades old...
for those interested in bettering their knowledge in order to form an educated opinion, "the union" is a great documentary to watch on the topic.
i'm not a stoner. i just don't think you should make your opinions based on what everybody else thinks, or what you've been told or trained to believe by society and the media. find out all the facts first, and then decide.