18th Musing: Legalization of Marijuana Opinions

Random notes about my life:
(currently listening to Jay Chou! Like I may have said earlier (can't remember), probably THE top Chinese musician, surely the most famous pianist. It's so interesting, also, how he combines piano with more modern...instruments? beats? I don't know what to call them. It's sort of a remix addition?
Also, I must say that Joshua is out of my obsessions...I'm sort of on the fence about him. I still like his personality, but his morals...I don't know.
So my current obsessions: new cosplay dress to sew, Okami art, and Xiao Yuan (Chinese youtube cover singer...she sounds really young, but no one knows how old she actually is...)
Random notes end here!

So this whole marijuana thing is a hot topic, especially since Amendment 64's been passed, making Colorado the first state to legalize marijuana for "recreational use". It will still be about a year until it's in full effect, however.
At first, I must say I was dead-set against this. I have never smoked in my entire life and I would delight in the mass destruction of it by some magical means. It's a physically and psychologically addictive (yes, really) hallucinogen that can trigger permanent schizophrenia and basically make you do a lot of stupid and potentially fatal things. That is how I sum up pot in one sentence.

But then, I was discussing this amendment with a very politically active friend of mine and doing a little research of my own, and I came to the conclusion that this might not be such a bad thing after all for people like me, it might even be good, especially since public consumption still isn't allowed, so the rest of us don't have to breathe it in, and neither is DUI. By selling it in public, though, it'll get rid of all the "underground" dealings. Now, there will be regulations and taxes on marijuana, which will lower its usage in a couple ways:
1. Who wants to pay more money than they used to?
2. It takes the whole...rebellious thing out of it. If people are told they can't do something, that something looks all the more enticing. Common fact about human nature: people don't like being told what to do.

So even though I really hate anyone smoking pot at all, at least there is a way smaller chance that people will consume it, at least that's what I believe based on how I've observed human behaviour.

However, in my perfect system, people wouldn't go to jail or get off free, but just be penalized with a lot of fines, so they don't take up jail space or our taxes for something that doesn't exactly deserve the full attention of the police or the court, to be honest.
I will say that other drugs are a different story and should be completely illegal because they do a lot more damage to the user and those around them. Sorry if I sound like a "goody-goody" or a "kill joy" to some, but these are my honest opinions and I hope someday I'll live in a world without drugs because, if you think about it, they cause some of the world's biggest problems, but I won't talk about that here.
For now, I've said my piece.