Drug Legalization

What do you all think? I say pot should be legalized immediately.  About one person every 40 seconds gets arrested for smoking marijuana - an activity which, in and of itself, doesn't hurt anyone but the health of the user.  Making marijuana legal would strengthen and reaffirm the notion that an individual has the liberty to do with his property and his body as he pleases - so long as he does not harm another human in the process.

Furthermore, I think police resources would be far better used hunting down REAL violent criminals, such as murderers, robbers, rapists, etc, rather than harassing and imprisoning people for peacefully enjoying a joint while sitting in their home.

Of those arrested in 2005 for marijuana use/possession, 88% were charged with possession only - indicating that the vast majority of marijuana users are not harming anyone and should be free to pursue their happiness by smoking a joint, if that does it for them. 

Almost 94 million americans have admitted to having used marijuana at some point or other in their lives, including presidents, congressman, and even supreme court justices. 

We have to think about what happens when you do certain things. Externalities is the term I think. More crime and accidents happen when people get drunk, especially in bars. However, not everybody who gets drunk at home or outside fucks up, so should we impose taxation on alcohol? Won't this lead to more smuggling and moonshining, creating more deaths and medical costs? Wouldn't it be better to change the cultural setting so that people were shaped to drink less (you don't get happier by drinking more anyway)? I mean, while many states go after marijuana like a bunch of retards possessed, their kids are dying of alcohol poisoning.
On the other hand, people who drive SUVs should pay more, since they get a better chance of survival at the expense of everyone else in traffic.