I think I've said it once and I'll say it again...The real problem with marijuana is the black market aspect. It is sold in most crack houses houses I have been to. It's sold where extacy is sold in the upper middle class young adult hangouts. It's sold in your next door neighbors house.

People die just because they are trying to smuggle it to you...Not because they want to do you a favor. They die because of the MONEY they are after. They don't give a crap about you.

IMHO it is morally wrong to participate in an activity that is so closely related to violence and funding organized crime. There are children out there that have no mother or father because they have been killed or incarcerated due to the sale of marijuana and other drugs. There are high level dealers that are rich from someone elses misery. I have witnessed this first hand.

Until society changes it's rules this organized crime will have it's finger in the pie. Should marijuana be legalized? I don't know. Why allow free access to another mind altering substance? On the other hand I like to take a drink from time to time. That definately can alter the mind.

By the way...There is no difference in hanging in a vacant building smoking dope and hanging in a vacant drinking cheap whiskey. People that do that are up to no good. The results are generally the same.