For haktouri: is it really so much to ask for?

Since you don't allow email i'm posting this question, because your post was one to hit a nerve in me, something that rarely happens. For the first argument in your post, more illegal immigrants would enter the country if cannabis were made legal, this doesn't make any sense. If you mean the current drug squads on the border would be removed, they could still be kept stationed there to keep illegals out. cannabis could be regulated to make large profits, and before we worry about the revenue, even if it was taxed the savings from the costs of prohibition would be astronomical on their own. See NORML's website for info. I never used the argument that alcohol is legal so cannabis should be, so I don't know why that was brought up. If people want to just sit on their couch all day, as long as they don't bother you or anyone else why do you care? Who said your idea of bigger and better things is better than anyone else's? If you take a look at some information on the costs of prohibition, in money as well as lives ruined or made extremely difficult at least, and all the bills being presented in congress for cannabis decriminalization, you'll see there is a lot more to the legalization movement than "a bunch of stoners who just want to smoke." finally, for those who do just want it legal so they can use it without fear of persecution, as long as they don't bother you is that really so much to ask? Why can't we just learn to stop hating people for having a different lifestyle.