Do you think marijuana should be ligalized? For all the people who dont look at the website?

Only the people who have never used it demonize weed and they have no idea of what they are saying. I'm fifty four, have smoked weed for thirty five years, own a business, pay taxes and work five, sometimes six days a week. My memory is better than most people I know, my spelling and grammar are fine and my ability to communicate serves me well enough to get my point across. I thought this issue would have been put to rest years ago. I do not consider myself a criminal for using pot, I consider my government intolerant for not giving me a choice of which substance I want to use to change my every day reality. Why should I be punished for choosing to smoke instead of drinking alcohol, which I never do. Let the government control who grows it, we can then have quality control, and tax it just like alcohol. We are throwing away enormous amounts of money trying to stop what many Americans want and also creating criminals out of otherwise productive citizens. It's way past time we change the laws concerning the usage of marijuana.