Living in America, what I don't want is the day before marijuana is legalized, a big production plant opens up and starts selling it, mass-production, mass-profit.
IF it is legalized it should be like alcohol and not be allowed in public. Since smoking in public is illegal in Iowa, there really wouldn't be much of a difference.
It may as well be legalized though. It's supposedly illegal but law enforcement rarely does anything about it except the busts you see on TV. In high school this girl got busted with some heroin and got a 10 day suspension. Thats it. Some guy at work had a bag of marijuana and got a proverbial slap on the wrist.
I'd say America should legalize it just because the government doesn't do much about it anyways, and to bring down all the douchebags that do waste money on it, think they're so damn cool.
And for the whole 'never killed anything' thing with marijuana, does that include 'drunk' driving? YES I KNOW they're not actually drunk, but high, whatever, it's close. I don't do chemicals so I wouldn't know the exact difference. There's nothing bad in marijuana like the shit they put in cigarettes and it doesn't kill off an organ system like alcohol, but I can't imagine someone driving very well after having a hit or five.
And while on the topic of illegal substances, I think America should ban alcohol and tobacco products as well. But as soon as something shows up to bring them down, a bunch of lobbyists with big checks show up and it's not heard from again.
I fucking hate this country...