Mrkim - some well thought out responses there. I do take issue with one part of your arguement though - the idea of not legislating for morality. In actual fact most (if not all) criminal law is based on morality, albeit more widely accepted than that relating to the legalization of drugs. Murder, theft (robbery, burglary, fraud, etc), assault are all morality based laws. It's just that when we get to things such as drugs the morality is not as clearly defined in social norms depending on which part of society you are in at the time - i.e. you would struggle to find people in society that would say cold blooded murder was ok, but you would easily find people that say recreational drug use - particularly marijuana - was acceptable. As we live in a democracy (I am assuming that most people visiting here do) it should come down to what the majority of us say.