Lumping marijuana in with the hard drugs is a common prohibitionist deception. This clouds the issue and attempts to cast the harms of the hard drugs onto cannabis. 

We don't have the same alcohol policy, as we do tobacco policy, as we do caffeine policy. Each drug has different levels of harm and requires a different regulatory approach. No one thought it necessary to discuss opium when they were debating ending alcohol prohibition. 

With four states joining the legal states in the last election, it's clear the issue before the country is the fraudulently enacted marijuana prohibition.

Science and widespread experience have shown marijuana has no significant harms. - Clearly, every person who switches from addictive, very harmful alcohol to near harmless marijuana, improves their health tremendously - as well as the lives of their family and community.