[Know your rights]

let the tobacco companies make marijuana cigarettes, get the tax revenues and the so-called quality control that comes with standardization.

I support that idea.

My main gripe with the laissez-faire, pro-legalization libertarian argument is that it is an unreasoned, primarily emotional and self-centered approach

No, it is a principled approach, your sleazy ad hominems notwithstanding.

Dr. Friedman's economic argument for legalization is based on a false assumption that government will save or wisely spend the money that would have gone to a wasteful program.

Programs don't get more wasteful than those whose only "accomplishment" is imprisoning people who violated nobody's rights. I'd rather see the money go to food stamps or WIC; there are good arguments against them, but at least they put food in a belly instead of a person in prison.

[Che Chihuahua]

I have been chastised! You're right about the principled approach. Even as we read and write these words, there are many principled legalization arguments being discussed by erudite stoned individuals over gourmet "munchies." And damned if they wouldn't change the world if they could just get up off their stoned asses to do something about it! If the ad hominem fits then its probably true.