Weed Should Be Legalized As It Will Improve Our Economy and Contains Almost No Health Problems

ok well my opponent I will admit seems to be well educated and fluent in debate i also noticed i forgot to add my sources to the end which I am almost certain I will be deducted for so here are my sources for round 1 http://www.ama-assn.org... http://www.drugpolicy.org... http://www.nationalreview.com... And for this purpose these are going to be sources i use for round 2. Ok sorry for the mistake but now onto round 2. My opponent states, "There is already a high rate of deaths from driving under the influence. Many people will get into a car and not be able to function properly, risking their lives and the lives of others. When on marijuana one does not realize that he or she is not functioning correctly." I can say the same exact thing about alcohol as it also impairs your ability to drive. I have experienced this first hand actually as a close friend of mine drove drunk and killed herself which makes me very strongly against driving under the influence. As I am going to assume you have never experienced marijuana before so you do not know what it is like to be under the influence. Despite contrary belief it is much much more different than alcohol is as a person who is high still has complete control over their motor skills and can still think much the same way. I am in no way saying that it is ok to drive while you are high I am still simply stating that it is nothing at all like alcohol. The government even conducted a "random" study of 182 fatal truck accidents. It just happened that these "random" accidents marijuana was present in many of the drivers, but in every driver that had marijuana in his system alcohol was also present which makes this study invalid not only because of the presence of alcohol but also because marijuana can stay in your system for anywhere in between a week to three months. So it is impossible to tell if the drivers were actually under the influence at the time. My Opponent also states, "Another problem with marijuana is that it is a gateway drug. Many people will one day want to take something a little better than marijuana, Cocaine or heroin." Stating that marijuana is the gateway drug is saying anyone that tries weed is going to grow up to be a heroine addict or crack addict and such. Lets compare this to the Somalian pirates we experienced back in April. Now these pirates are going to represent the heroin addicts while anyone that has ever stolen anything in their life no matter how small is going to represent someone that has tried cannabis before. I am sure these pirates stole as kids and it just seemed to click for them so they tried something harder and decided to make it a profession and become pirates. See what I mean with this "gateway drug" ideology it makes no sense. Yes people that are addicted to cocaine probably didn't start out snorting crack but by smoking marijuana. But still that is much like saying anyone that smokes marijuana is going to grow up to be a drug addict. This following link is a prison hospital employee stating all that he has learned about marijuana throughout his career of working there. http://www.rense.com... He will tell you himself that there is very little or nothing wrong with the drug at all and it is much more safe and sensible than alcohol.