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Even if you completely legalized marijuana, deaths from marijuana-impaired drivers would still be dwarfed by deaths from alcohol-impaired drivers by a factor of at least 20.

I completely agree with you, however, that's whole different argument. A completely valid argument, mind you,but different nonetheless.

Join me in my quest to ban alcohol nationwide. Over 75,000 deaths nationwide were attributed to alcohol in 2001. How many deaths were attributed to marijuana? Has anyone ever died from marijuana? If you had a choice between your child drinking a beer and driving or smoking a joint and driving, which would you prefer? I know which I'd prefer. I'd rather have them stoned and driving 10 miles under the speed limit instead of drunk and driving 10 over. Obviously no one should drive when impaired, but that hasn't stopped Americans (or residents of any country, for that matter) from doing it.

But back to my main point. We could save at least 75,000 lives a year if we banned alcohol, right? I mean no one would use it if it was illegal, and there's no way that the Mexican cartels who supply us with our marijuana, cocaine and heroin would ever consider supplying us with alcohol, right? Surely they'd respect our new alcohol laws and leave us alone.

Let’s also ban tobacco and fatty foods because they kill more people a day than marijuana kills in a lifetime. I don’t foresee any problems with these bans. People will obey the laws. /s