[robertpaulsen]

"Those elected representatives passed the CSA listing marijuana as a schedule I drug, pending to outcome of research to determine what it's appropriate scheduling should be. Were they told when they voted on that the the DEA had no intention of changing the scheduling, regardless of what the results of that research turned out to be?"

Why are you allowed to bring in the concept of "risk", yet I'm not?

[tacticalogic]

Why are you allowed to bring in the concept of "risk", yet I'm not?

I never said you couldn't. You chose not to. I pointed out that comparisons to alcohol were appropriate as a comparative measure for determining acceptable risk. You agreed, but qualified it by saying that any comparison should only be made when and if the decision to legalize was made. You wish to determine wheather or not it should be legalized without any reference to risk, but I'm not sure what it is you intend to base that determination on. The decision that risk is not a consideration was yours.