Chronic drug use is severely damaging to the user and their friends/family, that is true across the board for the vast majority of drugs (to include alcohol).

Chronic drug use is severely damaging to the user and their friends/family, that is true across the board for the vast majority of drugs (to include alcohol). The policy to ban marijuana for everyone is the wrong answer because it clearly doesn't solve the problem of the chronic (ab)user in the first place. The better solution is to redirect the money spent fighting the 'drug war' toward positive things like rehab programs and therapy. You will always have a subset of humans who abuse whatever kind of drugs they can get, you can't stop this. So why punish everyone else who can use drugs in a responsible manner?