hmmnmm.."The issue is social acceptance.."..? hunh?! Whhaat you say?..
The ONE big "issue" IS "PUBLIC HEALTH"!! The current social/legal experiments in Colorado and Washington will provide enough data over time, for analysis pro & con.
With the current slant towards privatizing public institutions and medicalizing normal human bodily functions, It seems that the big Pharmaceutical Industrial Complex, (the 2nd largest industry in America behind Big Oil), which spends more money on advertising than it does on research, is in cahoots with the Health Insurance Industry and "Disease Management Industry" in a very successful and lucrative venture to make money off of diseases, while fabricating medical conditions and providing expensive medications to treat them .
THE FDA, Federal Drug Administration is, like the Federal Reserve Board, are administered by the very industries they are supposed to be regulating. The Banking industry controls the federal reserve and the pharmaceutical industry controls the FDA.
With the, "Everything is about money" crowd led by bankers and lawyers, pushing the business tax revenue argument, and the "legalize it/decriminalize it"" crowd led by entrepreneurs and venture capitalist, pushing the '..Alcohol and Cigarettes are legal" argument, and the 'Socially Conscience' crowd led by Progressive Social Democrat types, decrying, "The War on Drugs is a Failure";
NOT ONE OF THESE ARGUMENTS MENTIONS PUBLIC HEALTH
Today in the USA, Obesity, Diabetes and Prescribed Medication Abuse are all considered to be festering into epidemic proportions within the next 25 years or so.Now add to these, the side effects and symptoms of marijuana use and addiction and then talk to me about "The issue is social acceptance"