California Pot Initiative

I read today that beer brewers and distributers are going to start spending money in the California voter initiative to legalize marijuana and I wonder how long it will be until Pharmaceutical makers start spending too.  I think that this is something that all people who are completely dead set against marijuana legalization should think about.  The beer makers aren't against legalized pot because they buy into the gateway drug scare tactics, they are against legalization because they know that pot is a substitute for alcohol; they know that pot plays the same role in society with the same benefits and the same drawbacks as alcohol.  

Just like alcohol, if you abuse pot, you will suffer a lot negative consequences.  But if you use either in appropriate doses rarely will anything bad happen.  Human beings have a need to escape: we do it with drugs, we do it with alcohol, we do it with food, we do it with shopping.  Even if all the drugs in the world disappeared, people would still spin around in circles until they fell down dizzy.  It is high time that the US government and the American people look at drugs rationally and let the facts determine what is and isn't a threat.