My point still stands:   you would have made a better case if you gave a few cases of people whose lives were actually destroyed by using marijuana.  You don't think people's lives have been destroyed through the judicial system?  We have too many people in jail and most is due to the war on drugs.  Shortsighted and stupid.   We need to stop funding the world's largest prison industrial complex.  And yes people have gone to jail for just smoking a joint.  They tend to be black.