text: I'd rather my employees show up to work after a wake n' bake than showing up hung over.
  I'd rather see someone be reliant on marijuana to get through the day than be reliant on alcohol to get through the day.
  
  All of this is moot, anyway, when you consider that legalization will hardly "encourage" anyone to do anything. The people who already smoke every day and buy it illegally are the real benefactors here. We are no longer forced to live a "criminal" lifestyle. I have friends working in public service who are ashamed to show their faces in local headshops because they don't want someone in the public seeing them in there. Yet there's no stigma attached to going out to a bar and getting so wasted that you end up in a hospital with alcohol poisoning, after assaulting someone for disagreeing with where you left your jacket.