Be sure to compare/contrast with alcohol.

Note that taxes could be collected from the sale of the product, and no more money would be spent "fighting the drug war" for marijuana.

More kids smoke weed than smoke cigs or drink alcohol - because weed is easier to get. Regulation REGULATES. Duh.

Weed is not a gateway drug - you can find statistics to back this up if you search on Google Scholar.

There is no lethal overdose for weed but there is a relatively low lethal dose for alcohol and if you ate two cigarettes' worth of tobacco you would die (not smoking though cause most of the nicotine is burned off into the air).

hope that helps, I love Google Scholar for papers. It's my favorite.