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If the death toll is less than alcohol or tobacco, then legalize it... because people that want it will get it one way or another, just like during the prohibition. Except during the prohibition some people went blind from watered down contaminated alcohol, that they paid a fortune for, and created organized druglords... kinda like we see today.
Alcohol abuse kills 88K each year, and 443K each year from tobacco.
For example the number of recorded cases of premature death from cannabis use is currently 0. Smoking anything is surely unhealthy, but people aren't smoking much of it compared to chain smoking tobacco users.
1 in 5 deaths in the United States are now associated with obesity, and yet Mountain Dew, Dairy Queen, and Dominos Pizza are not illegal even though those are clearly abused as well, with high-fructose corn syrup in almost every product you can think of, killing far more people than alcohol and tobacco combined.
TL;DR: We have f'd up priorities.
The 0% death rate I have and will always call BS on, you are ingesting smoke, and everything in it into your lungs, you are also taking in lots of THC, my father who use to smoke had this problem, at this point in his life he was starting to get older and smoke more, he ended up having a stroke, which just so happened after a pretty long smoke session, after the first stroke along with bad memory he started to smoke more once he returned home, and had a second stroke within 2 weeks, the doctor told him this was a bad idea, was released and as soon as he was home (after 3 days in the hospital), he went on benge smoking....Had a stroke the same day, with lots and LOTS of taking by most family members and the doctor we got him to quit, and to this day (many years later) has never had another stroke, though his thinking, reaction time and memory are still nothing like they were before the strokes.
Now, with all that said, even if it would kill you, and we knew this, it was his choice, and it should be everyone's choice. We are ok with killing an unborn child because it is the woman's body and she can do as she wishes, but you are not allowed even access to some plants? This is a ridiculous notion. At the very least ALL "drugs" should be made legal and taxed like tobacco and alcohol, this will give access to drugs that have not been tampered with or cut/mixed with God knows what, and will also be a source of money flow (not like the government needs more), but rather than spending the millions we do on so called drug war, all that spending can be directed elsewhere that it would serve some good, and also supply an inflow of money, it would also drop our prison populations by a large percent and reduce spending on those as well.