Both marijuana and alcohol (in the form of wine) have medicinal benefits. My glass of wine a day raises my HDL cholesterol and has other benefits, too. Resveratrol has the scientific studies to back up its benefits.

Marijuana eases glaucoma and nausea. I know that it is abused and being purchased for its "high" but that doesn't mean it should be denied to people who need it. Or perhaps you favor getting all painkillers off the market just to let people suffer because some abuse them.

If you legalize drugs, you take away the drug culture with cartels killing hundreds of people. A lot of innocents die there where if someone dies from an overdose, they did it to themselves.