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Wow much to say:

• I believe that MJ is worse than alcohol, because, mainly if you smoke when you are young, there is a risk that you become schizophrenic (you have to already have the brain in way that it is possible that you become schizophrenic, but how do you know?). If you become an alcoholic and then you manage to get out, the only thing you will have the rest of your life is that you never ever can drink even a drop of alchol. But if you get schizophrenic, the rest of your life changes quite a lot more. I am not on a anti-MJ-crusade, I think it just important to know the risks; and this thing of schizophrenia I had 2 friends who got schizophrenic due do smoking heaps of MJ (one of them died, due to a side-effect of the medicaments he had to take, last summer at age 23...) so not making it up
• The heroin distribution programs we have in Switzerland are one of the most useful things done for the addicts living in the streets. Usually it is not the heroin itself (it does not destroy the body like eg. crack), but the life they have to live which destroys them. Making them not live in the streets is a big help (much better than the jail!). This is what every person working in this field says and also the addicts or ex-addicts themselves say (due to the work of my father I know quite a few).
  Even those christians or other people really against it, should be happy about this, simply because "their kids" (as they love to say) wouldn't need to see anymore people in the park with the needle in their arm.
• I am in favor of legalizing MJ, just because as someone said here it permits more control (once again, in Switzerland just recently it was voted against ). It will always be possible to get it underage, but by it being legal it will be much harder (just like when buying alcohol when I was 14, it is possible but not easy).

In conclusion, I do not know why it is illegal, but although it is dangerous, it should be legal because it permits better control.