Advil kills more people than marijuana. Sure, people have died while under the influence, but they were 99.99+% of the time also drinking or doing something else. Confounds, causation, correlation, etc.

Legalizing and taxing marijuana (which honestly wouldn’t net *that* much revenue – I can’t see dealers filling out tax returns for it) would save us enough federal and state dollars to get a lot of states out of the hole.

Oh, well. The United States is nothing if not a land of tradition, desperately grasping at anything (like 40 years of ex-Confederate soldiers calling themselves cowboys) to make up for our lack of long term cultural history. One 1930’s law is now considered the only way to do things, classifying it as a Schedule 1 narcotic with heroin & mescaline. Cocaine is only Schedule 2!