We're just full of opinion at Smokedot today, our next op/ed piece comes from Livingston Daily and asks: Give Legal Marijuana A Chance!

The National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws rebukes the addiction claim, citing a 1999 U.S. Institutes of Medicine report that shows less than 1 in 10 of marijuana users become regular smokers.

Putting that into context, the study states 15 percent of alcohol consumers and 32 percent of tobacco users exhibit signs of drug dependence.

NORML also states you can't die directly from a marijuana overdose.

Then there is drugwarfacts.org, which states there are plenty of other things that kill more people each year than marijuana use.

In 2000, there were 435,000 tobacco-related deaths in the United States, 365,000 attributable to poor diet and inactivity and 85,000 linked to alcohol.

That poses the question: Should alcohol be banned again? How about tobacco? Maybe fast-food restaurants instead of marijuana?

Tobacco and alcohol kill people all the time, and they still schedule Marijuana with crack and ecstasy.