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If someone is suffering from cancer, and pot helps, that's fine. But that's a completely different thing from saying that there's nothing wrong with smoking pot recreationally. And I still don't believe that it's an actual cure for cancer.

And I'm willing to bet that I've seen more people suffer and die from cancer (and chemotherapy) than you have, since I worked for several years in an in-patient hospital oncology unit. I'm not a fan of allopathic medicine. I favor alternatives. But those who push pot as being medicinal tend to completely whitewash the negative aspects of it, especially when taken recreationally. 

You're another know-it-all. Aren't traditional Catholics wonderful?

It must be legalized so it can be available to all, regardless of income.

On top of the steady state mayhem in the US and Mexico from the drug trade, there was an uptick in mayhem this week with the arrest of "El Huevo," the leader of the latest successor to Los Zetas.

Clearly it is the illegalization of drugs that makes them profitable.

In the present paradigm, drug addicts and profiteers not only injure themselves, but us (theft, political corruption, and violent crimes).

One is tempted to look at alcohol prohibition and to notice the fall in violence when prohibition ended, but the profiteers moved into other prohibited substances with increased profit and an eventual return to criminal violence.

Jesus assured us we would always have the poor. It seems to be that, implicit in His warning, is a recognition that we will always have criminals (and self-destructive people).

It seems worth considering that confining the problem is more likely to be successful than eliminating the problem. 

I welcome suggestions from reasonable people here.