@Azure, I feel like a I really shouldn't bother to validate that with a reply, but I'll do it anyway.

What you're talking is not encouragement. You aren't encouraging people to not smoke. You're extorting them. It's force. You're locking someone up, taking away their freedom, because they chose to exercise their freedom.

Smoking weed isn't idiotic, like you say it is. The benefits outweight the negatives, as I've argued in this thread.

Also, in many cases, marijuana isn't inferior medicine. Shit that works for one person doesn't necessarily work for another. Case in point; morphine. That's why medical marijuana's out there - to provide alternatives.

edit:@Cow, because your explanations were countered by my explanations. If you've ran out of points to argue then perhaps it's time to stop arguing.