Legalization of marijuana

I didn't respond to some points because I ran out of word count. 1. Benefits to marijuana are irrelevant because it is someone's choice what they want to put into their own bodies. If they aren't harming others, it shouldn't be illegal. Marijuana may not be beneficial, but that is besides the point because the main point I'm trying to make is that if it doesn't hurt OTHERS, a person should have the ability to decide if they want to hurt themselves.. Free will. The government shouldn't have any control over our free will. 2. Racism contributes to the prejudicial court system. Black males were jailed six times more than white males as of 2007, and black men are 11.8 times more likely than white men to be incarcerated for drug use or possession. 3. People are going to be addicted either way. The main point (I repeat) is that it is a person's choice whether they should do drugs or not, not the government's. And it costs more money when marijuana is illegal, so why are we wasting money on something that shouldn't even be illegal? For protection? Because people do it anyway, so what the hell are we protecting? 4 and 5. And? That's their problem. People have the right to be addicted if they please. People in our nation are obese. Making school lunches healthier doesn't stop students from buying bags or chips and pigging out at home, just like making something illegal doesn't make the product less easy to obtain. It's a worthless cause because it wastes money and doesn't really help anyone because like you said, how does anything help an addict if they are already addicted? If they want to, so what? It's their life. Who the hell are you or the government to dictate someone else's life? Again, if they aren't harming anyone, then leave them alone! Let it be legal. 6. It's very irrelevant because the percentage of usage compared to the percentage of people who are caught is a HUGE difference. People still do it. People still get away with it. People don't care. So why waste the time making an effort to make them care? They obviously don't and won't. The law was made to help protect people. Well guess what, it isn't protecting anyone because the percentages for usage are higher than ever (no pun intended). I was comparing the government's constant rule to our free will. The government consistently tries to control our lives. Slavery was a huge problem, denying women of their rights was a problem, and now, denying citizens of their free will to do drugs is a problem. Drugs are drugs. Whoever wants to do them should be able to without the government sending users and sellers to jail. Lives are wasted in jail over something as silly as that. It's each citizen's prerogative to decide what they want to do to their bodies and with their lives. 8. It doesn't matter if marijuana is harmful. Again (I'll say it as many times as I need to) it's a person's decision if they want to increase their heart rate etc, etc with a drug. Use sources. If you don't, you aren't backing up your information, so you'll lose credit for that. Also, if you don't back up your information, all words can be perceived as an opinion. Opinions only make up half of a debate.