All "drugs" are serious- alcohol, marijuana, caffeine, aspirin, and have the potential of negative side effects. I'm addicted to my morning coffee and if I don't have at least 2 cups to get my caffeine fix, I am not at all pleasant to be around and I then develop blinding headaches and stomach cramps from withdrawal.

So by your standards, caffeine should be outlawed as a physically and psychologically addictive substance.

Which is silly. It's my body and I should be allowed my morning cup or two of Joe. Who's it hurting?

Why not the same for marijuana? If a person wants to sit in the privacy of his or her own home, smoke a bowl, and huddle in a corner with candles lit contemplating their belly button, who is it hurting?

I dare you to find me one single credible source that shows marijuana to be anywhere near as dangerous as alcohol in terms of deaths directly related to the substance- either through overdoses/poisoning, criminal assault/murder, or driving while impaired.

You can't.

For the police to spend their time and resources hunting down harmless stoners who aren't a threat to anything except a bag of Doritos and divert their efforts from more serious transgressions against the law- drunk drivers, burglers, rapists, gangs- to me is a very skewed sense of priorities.