This poll says that in California, 50% of "voters" (I assume they mean "registered voters" oppose the legalization of non-medical marijuana whereas 46% favor it. The headline says, "Most California voters don't support legalizing pot, poll finds" but since the poll has a margin of error of 3.5 percentage points, it sounds darn close to a tie to me. Personally, I'm in favor of legalizing it even though I've never used the stuff and am more likely to try bungee-jumping without a cord. I just think that if alcohol's legal, marijuana should be too.
I always remember a guy on the old Joe Pyne Show back in the sixties. They were doing, as they often did, the old "Why is pot illegal when bourbon isn't?" debate and the one anti-pot hardhat type said, "I'm against legalizing marijuana because it's the drug of choice for the kind of people I hate." I thought that was a pretty honest statement…more so than the other folks on that program arguing on his side, insisting that if you start smoking pot on Thanksgiving, you'll be shooting heroin by Christmas.