Should marijuana be legalized.

I would like to point out my that opponent did not acknowledge his clear misconduct by copy and pasting a argument, and he most certainly did notApologize for this. Based on this fact alone I would argue that I get the conduct point. Now my opponent claims marijuana is not justifiable because of the hypocricsy involved with alchohol and tobacco then mentions absolutely no hypocricsy. He claims that some how the fact that tobacco and alchohol cause cancer some how makes it so they should be illegal and I say on what grounds. A large portion of the things we use every day can cause cancer, either you have to admit causing cancer is not a reason to make something illegal or you must agree to criminalizing sun light. But do you know what reduces cancerous tumor growth? Marijuana. "Stimulation of cannabinoid CB1 receptors by 2-methyl-arachidonyl-2"-fluoro-ethylamide (Met-FAEA) inhibits the growth of a rat thyroid cancer cell-derived tumor in athymic mice by inhibiting the activity of the oncogene product p21ras."[1] Then he goes on to list some supposed symptoms for dependence, but what he doesn't mention is that the "diagnoses" of dependence is given if the subject feels all of these in one year. I could accept this if they said a week, heck a month, but a year? This is an absurd time range as I could feel most of the symptoms for a large portion of diseases and infections in a year. My opponent also drops the abuse point so I can assume he has conceded it to me. In fact my opponent drops most of his arguments and argues against almost none of mine. What he does argue is that Pot makes people lazy, and his source for this? Is it a doctor? Is it a goverment website? Is it any form of an accredited source? Nope, its heresay from two people. Hardly enough for a test aproved by any reasonably authority. But if heresay is enough, I have a friend who, along with his brother, train nearly every day to be UFC fighters and one of them works every week day as a construction worker. This clearly shows a lack of laziness, so refutes his argument point for point. My opponent seems to assert that goverment has a responsibility to prevent lazy people, but gives no reasoning for this. This fails due to lack of evidence. For my opponent to win he will have to show that leaving this market in the hands of criminals will be a better choice then taking this precious resource from them. He must show that the police forces can do a better job at removing this from the hands of criminals, then is possible for the goverment to do by making this a white market allowing for big buisnesses to move in and undercut their prices. Con must show that it will cost more to legalize then shall be gained in taxing. He will also have to give justification for any law to be in place. Any country with unjustified laws cannot claim they are just in their law. Effect upon a users health, I find, is inviable unless one can preclude putting in place legislation to remove any statefunding for treatments or other costs due to marijuana related illness, injury, or other harmful effect. And show that a user does not have the right to choose their state of health. Con has show disregard for this debate, disregard for me, and flagrent plagerism of an entire argument. Based on this I feel I deserve the conduct point. I have soundly refuted Cons arguments and he has dropped a large portion of mine. Based on this I feel I deserve the argument point. I leave it entirely up to the voters to decide spelling and sources as I have no experience in thouse areas of debate. As my closing argument I would like to inform my opponent I wrote both of my rounds completely high and I shall assume that he is completely sober or we can show clear duplicity, I wrote out both my arguments my self and you plagarised the first one while the second consisted mostly of two copy and pasted life stories. I offer into evidence this against his claim that pot causes laziness. Ladies and gentleman, I ask that you vote pro. Sources: http://science.iowamedicalmarijuana.org...