The thing about your arguement about tobacco and marijuana is that they are both bad for you. No one in there right mind (besides maybe the heads of cigerette companies) can disagree with that. So why would you start smoking either?
Better yet, why should either be legal?
I think marijuana should definitely remain illegal. There should be reforms in the laws relating to it though. Some of them are rediculous. For example, the fact that if I were to go out of my home right now, get in my car, and plow down some neighborhood kid, killing him, I\'d be charged with man slaughter, and sent to jail for like 1 1/3 to 3 years. If I instead went outside, smoked some weed, and a cop came by and caught me, then found out that I had more of it inside, I could be going to jail for at least twice as long. That\'s just not right.