Marijuana shouldn't be as stigmatized even as much as alcohol I feel. Alcohol is terribly destructive, as many in this thread would testify to. Marijuana can have some negative effects if the person is trying to numb feelings or escape life, but at that point, it's not the marijuana that's the problem but the things going on in the person's life.

In my case, marijuana helps my chronic pain, it helps some social anxiety, and even when not high, the longer non-intoxicating effects often helps my mood. There's at the very least medicinal uses for it, and it certainly shouldn't be classified by the DEA as having no medicinal uses whatsoever. But if adults can use alcohol, they can use marijuana. The government shouldn't be controlling our bodies or what we do or don't put in them. It doesn't lead to moral degradation or losing touch with life or any other of those reefer madness fears. Why should a damn plant be illegal?