The beauty is that we all still have the right to freely hold our own opinions about these things.
And to go along with that, I feel it is our right to choose to consume [CENSORED WORD]. It does no harm to the people around you and very little harm to yourself if compared to other legal substances people tend to abuse on a daily basis.
Smoking [CENSORED WORD] kills a very small fraction of people compared to those smoking cigarettes. Though, [CENSORED WORD]
related deaths do occur quite a lot. My theory on the why is that in order to get away from the law, people have to drive somewhere or get high while they drive. People are going to smoke no matter what, but if you take away the one thing in their way, there won't be as much pressure to be a "rebel."
European countries think we're bass akwards for learning to drive before we learn to drink. The statistics for drunk driving related deaths over there is astonishingly small compared to America. Why? Because there is no insentive to break the law. They learn at an early age what drinking does to you and how inappropriate it is to get drunk and drive. It's a simple concept really. Take away the insentive for rebellion, and there won't be any. Under this theory, after legalizing [CENSORED WORD], there would be less abuse of it.
*end rant*