Just do it already

In the original 1936 "educational" movie, Reefer Madness taught high school students that, when smoking marijuana, all kinds of crazy happens. There's a hit and run accident, manslaughter, suicide, rape, and you just descent into madness. Personally that sounds A LOT like a drunk person than a high one.
Now our society might not have the same outlandish ideas of marijuana it had back then but I swear we might as well have. The big question is how marijuana is illegal when drinking, which causes all that above isn't. Back in the day when the government tried it best to making drinking illegal, people did what people do today with marijuana. They went under ground. Gangs and Mobs have a fun time with that and crime went up. In the end, people won and we got our lovely booze back. Happy days. If it's true what they say about history then I'll place my bets that's what going to happen to marijuana.

Crime would go down cause people would just be too high. It's hard doing stuff high. Plus when you're high, you're happy. I've never seen a high person want to kill some one.

Tax the hell out of it and the government would be less in the hole. It would give people jobs in factories and junk.

I've heard the argument that people would just go around all day high. Um no. See this is America, land of the freedom with rules. We can't go to work drunk, drive drunk or be publicly intoxicated. We can't even smoke freaking cigarettes freely in Austin anymore. So duh there would be rules that came with the freedom, just like with EVERY freedom.

Should I even go into the health part? I don't feel like I need to because frankly people don't give a rats ass about that. If people did then cigs and booze wouldn't be legal. So what if marijuana can help you. So what its less harmful than eating a burger at McDonald's. Looking around at our society, we obviously don't ban things that are bad for you.

Like I said before, history is going to repeat itself. Marijuana is going to be legal someday. Looking at our economic issues, I'd say now would be a mighty fine time to do so.