What scares me is that I've known several people who hated cigarette smoking with a passion, and stated that if they could they would make it illegal... and at the same time supported the legalization of medical marijuana, since the government shouldn't be able to force people who wanted to purchase it from doing so.

Oy.

I'm not seeing the problem here, minus the part about actually making it illegal and even from there I can see how they've reconciled their own logic. What's the deal?