I've said my piece before on the locked marijuana thread, but basically I don't see a point to it, and haven't been given enough reason to change my opinion. As I see it, people 'get high' to help escape from real life. Forget problems, make jokes seem funnier (everyone who thinks it's cool to get high and watch a movie
), etc. Sorry, but if life's that bad, there's a problem somewhere else.
Comparing it to drinking is pretty irrelevant. Drinking doesn't affect anyone around you. I down half a bottle of Green Label, and no one knows. However, if someone lights one up in their apartment (I had first hand experience), it stinks the entire building up. How on earth are we going to be able to regulate that? What about instead if me above the person that always smoked, it was a mother with a young child? Lastly, people don't get high because they enjoy the process (enhaling a bunch of hot smoke). People drink, or at least they should, because it's good. If you don't like beer/wine, you aren't drinking the good stuff.
And before you say it, I don't support drunks either. Losers who drink too much are just as bad.