Alcohol use is not a cause of wife-beating. It just so happens that more drunkards abuse wives. There is a correlation, not a cause. Most people who get drunk _don't_ hit their spouses.

I would say that legalizing it is a bad decision - its like telling underage people its alright to drug up once you reach a certain age, and it'll make getting drugs a lot easier than it is now, which is still pretty damned easy. Keep it illegal, make it harder for people to get it.

While I'm not saying that all evil in the world is caused by people on drugs, I will say that I've never seen marijuana/hemp/whatever else do anything really positive for a person outside of draining a couple of thousand dollars per year that could be going to something more useful. Whether or not you get high is your own personal choice, but society as a whole should disapprove of it, because it is harmful, unattractive, and ####s up your brain chemistry.

Legalizing it for medical use is still pretty useless, I think, because at this day and age there are better painkillers, and we have enough problems with people addicted to prescription drugs that adding another whole category of addictive substances via prescription would be retarded.